Type Faster
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@thanksaj said:
I've destroyed many a person online simply because I can type 98 wpm!
I used to be able to type pretty well. Like @scottalanmiller I generally can type a conversation and have a conversation with someone at the same time. I've freaked a few people out by doing that. I even manage to keep up with my errors and correct them (mostly) on the fly.
However I'm not able to type nearly as fast as I once was.. In my last job part of my responsibility was to teach typing,.. people kept asking my typing speed so I broke down and took the test. My peak was about 118 WPM - but with all the typing I have done over the years, bad habits and such it's no where near that any more.
I type faster then I think in some regards,.. and 10x faster than I can write.
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@thanksaj said:
I've destroyed many a person online
Really?
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If their argument was that weak in the first place, the pace at which you type had little bearing on the discussion, if they had a strong argument, perhaps they felt no one was listening because they were simply being run over, so in that case they decided to give up.
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@Dashrender said:
If their argument was that weak in the first place, the pace at which you type had little bearing on the discussion, if they had a strong argument, perhaps they felt no one was listening because they were simply being run over, so in that case they decided to give up.
Most are very weak. They should not feel run over. I find that most people who type slowly also post poorly doing things that don't support good discussions like saving up tons of points for a single monster post that is TL;DR and hard to follow instead of several, small, single point posts that are easy to digest, easy to understand, clearly separated points and easy to respond to.
Often, I think, it is that they type fast enough but don't have a response at all and are trying to come up with the logic behind their argument and stalling because they didn't actually think it through at first and are attempting to construct a reason after the fact - which takes much longer and isn't very reliable (what are the chances that someone has a good reason for something after the fact that they did something random?)
It's also that most discussions that I have, at least, are repetitive. I've heard all the arguments before and my answers are already at hand and already vetted. So if I had bad logic in the past, I would likely have corrected it and thought things through. That's a huge difference, that I am almost never having a discussion "for the first time." Whereas most people discussing topics with me have put little thought into them previously and have not run their ideas past review before asserting them.
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In this day and age, typing quickly and fluidly is much like speaking well. Traditionally being able to speak well in public meant that you had a big advantage in any discussion. That still holds true for "in person" conversations. Online, typing well and writing well provide the same result.
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I like arguing with people on here that live in different time zones. I'll come up with a pithy reply and have to wait 8 hours for them to wake up and answer me.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I like arguing with people on here that live in different time zones. I'll come up with a pithy reply and have to wait 8 hours for them to wake up and answer me.
The age of global discussions.
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This is how a lot of businesses work today too. Everyone has figured out to copy in a foreign decision maker and just wait for a response. Decisions that used to happen in hours now take days or weeks due to the traditional back and forth dialog spread out on this new time zone sliding basis. Anyone wanting to procrastinate on something now has a built in way to make it happen.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
This is how a lot of businesses work today too. Everyone has figured out to copy in a foreign decision maker and just wait for a response. Decisions that used to happen in hours now take days or weeks due to the traditional back and forth dialog spread out on this new time zone sliding basis. Anyone wanting to procrastinate on something now has a built in way to make it happen.
Oh you know it!
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@scottalanmiller First time I read one of your RAID posts I was bowled over, so much delicious info. Then it was nearly duplicated the next day, different post, and the next day, etc. Always wondered why you didn't have a ready made copy pasta but the type speed explains it.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller First time I read one of your RAID posts I was bowled over, so much delicious info. Then it was nearly duplicated the next day, different post, and the next day, etc. Always wondered why you didn't have a ready made copy pasta but the type speed explains it.
I have about a dozen articles that I link constantly, but people need a certain about of "written every time" it seems. It's tough, I write basically the same thing on many different topics all the time.
Here is a list of a lot of the ones that I link all of the time specific to RAID. I've put together a reference page to make it easier.
