Thread: Weird question on "fingers"

I learned to type the old-fashioned way. Fingers of left hand on A, S, D, and the F key; fingers of right hand on J, K, L, and the semi-colon key; thumbs on the space bar. Every finger is used. My pinkies are often used as much, if not more, than the rest of my fingers.

Then again, everyone has their own way of typing.

That's the only way I've ever known. When I brought my Model Five home from the pawn shop when I was, what, ten? 11? My sister started drilling me right away on a s d f ; l k j. She was seven years older and had taken typing in high school. She taught me using the same system the teacher had used to teach her and in a short time I was typing.

It's called 'pecking,' isn't it? I know a few writers who do that (typing using only their pointer fingers).

I also know two women who were born with an extra thumb each, and one man who lost his pinky, ring and middle fingers in a childhood lawnmower accident. The only problem the women had were as children, with other children (kids can be so cruel). The way the man does things one wouldn't know he lost anything unless you looked at his hand.