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Can any of you type entirely by touch?
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Posted by: Roasted

I mastered the keypad of my Krzr K1 after about a year of having it. It was at the point I could type an entire text message with 2 hands without looking and have little to no errors. Now that I upgraded to a full keyboard phone, I'm trying to do the same, however it seems I fail miserably every time I try to type based on feel.

What about the rest of you? Do any of you type entirely by feel or do you find yourself looking at the keyboard in order to remain accurate?

Posted by: swtrainer

I am getting pretty good at the BJ II keyboard (since 10-29-2007), but not totally by touch - if it took you a year to master the Krzr K1, you can expect it to take you at least a few months to adjust.

My recommendation is to practice authoring some long email to yourself or a Word doc on the BJ II and just keep at it. I hit a learning curve when I went from a Blackberry 8700 to a Blackberry Pearl and now going back to a qwerty keyboard with the BJ II I'm having to adjust again. What has helped me is to force my thumbs to the f and j keys as a starting point and use the left thumb for everything that used the left hand and the right thumb for everything that sued the right hand for touch typing on a standard keyboard (good ole Typing 101). Also, I've noticed that the BJ II keyboard can become less accurate if I don't trim my fingernails soon enough - I end up pressing the wrong key with my fingernail inadvertently.

Posted by: oddsocks

I don't use a Blackjack but I use the T9 on the front of my Vox when just sending a quick message and I can almost tap perfectly with the slide out keyboard except the sillyness with the shift key being under the Q instead of the A like on a regular QWERTY.