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Ens.Jimmy

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:angry: Any secrets or tips on speed of typing. My experience last night was AWSOME the accadamy sim was WOW tough but it was even tougher because reading the screen and typing were off timing

As soon as i knew what to tyoe it was passed or the situation changed. I don't wanna give give up

Help / Advice or tricks anyone

Thanks and

KEEP TREKING

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:angry: Any secrets or tips on speed of typing. My experience last night was AWSOME the accadamy sim was WOW tough but it was even tougher because reading the screen and typing were off timing

As soon as i knew what to tyoe it was passed or the situation changed. I don't wanna give give up

Help / Advice or tricks anyone

Thanks and

KEEP TREKING

 

One thing that has helped me when it comes to typing is making a timed exercise for how fast I can type a few paragraphs. Just think of a topic and let you fingers do the talking. Over time you'll get faster, but just don't rush yourself when you do it.

 

Also you might want to have some music to inspire you. In most cases you can just pop in a cd or even turn on your pc's (or mac's) music player and just make a playlist specifically for simming. If you combine the two you should be able to keep up with almost anyone.

 

Hope this info helps you out. :)

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Like anything, practice helps. I don't know if you write a lot outside of sims (that's where I got my typing proficiency up), but that's a good thing to try. Either that or start writing a lot of e-mails to your friends, or start a journal on your computer. Just try to keep typing every day. Once you get comfortable with typing faster (and of course, not having to double check the position of your fingers while you're typing) things get a lot easier. Of course, when you're trying to read something else and trying to type your own thoughts, it gets tough again. You just have to be able to let the words flow through to your hands without your mind getting in the way, and that's where all of the out of sim practice comes into play. Don't worry if it takes a while; there are some simmers here that are GMs and still can't really type worth a darn, so don't feel bad that it's a little sticky for you as a cadet.

 

Above all else, just try to have fun, and don't stress out if you're a bit slow. The GMs aren't going to hold it against you, so long as when you do get something on the screen, it's not a load of cow poo. :angry:

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Like anything, practice helps. I don't know if you write a lot outside of sims (that's where I got my typing proficiency up), but that's a good thing to try. Either that or start writing a lot of e-mails to your friends, or start a journal on your computer. Just try to keep typing every day. Once you get comfortable with typing faster (and of course, not having to double check the position of your fingers while you're typing) things get a lot easier. Of course, when you're trying to read something else and trying to type your own thoughts, it gets tough again. You just have to be able to let the words flow through to your hands without your mind getting in the way, and that's where all of the out of sim practice comes into play. Don't worry if it takes a while; there are some simmers here that are GMs and still can't really type worth a darn, so don't feel bad that it's a little sticky for you as a cadet.

 

Above all else, just try to have fun, and don't stress out if you're a bit slow. The GMs aren't going to hold it against you, so long as when you do get something on the screen, it's not a load of cow poo. :angry:

 

Agreed...just dont let your imigination suffer,keep it within the realm of the sim and you wil do fine heck everyone has their faults,relax,and have fun...afterall isnt that what we are here for??

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Interestingly enough, I actually learned to type better because of simming. Before I started more than two years ago (that long? :) :angry:), I couldn't type worth beans. I had to constantly look down, and I only knew where a few of the letters were without looking. As time went on with simming, I just got better at typing because I wanted to keep up. I can't really help you in terms of pointing out where to go for help, but I can tell you that in time you will be rewarded. B)

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Practice, practice, practice. Like Murray, my typing speed improved when I started simming - I went from barely 30wpm to over 60, and it's purely the practice that does it.

 

Two tips that might help while you're working on it:

 

First, you don't actually need to read every line that comes up on screen. Try to sort of 'tune out' lines from people your character can't hear or see -- so you don't need to read the CMO's lines if your in Engineering, for instance, unless they've contacted you by comms. As you get better, you'll have time to read everything, but when you're just starting out, blinders help. Use the post tags to help with this -- if you need to, look down at your keys for a moment, then glance up and scan for your post and name. Don't see them? Look down again.

 

Secondly, you can break up your reponses into smaller sections. For instance, instead of:

 

<OPS> "Captain, I'm reading something strange... ::checks his sensors:: It looks like a wormhole."

 

you could type:

<OPS>Captain, I'm reading something strange...

<OPS>::checks his sensors::

<OPS>It looks like a wormhole.

 

It's the same amount of typing, but now you've cued people that you have something to contribute, so you have a little more time to get the rest out. They'll wait. :-)

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As was said previously. Simming is an awesome way of improving typing speed. I actually got better from simming as well as doing the chat room type thing. It is a useful thing when it comes to getting it done :) Also Alot of times Quality is faw better than quanity. A person can type a thousand words and get nothing accomplished while another person my type 2 or 3 lines and solve whatever the problem is. B) So now that I did my thinking for today I am gonna go lay down before I hurt myself. :angry:

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Well, I still have to look down at my fingers for typing, at least if I wanna type fast enough to keep up with things. I can't say that I'm having trouble keeping up unless I get a bunch of pms as well.

But if you feel like you can't keep up what will indeed work (as mentioned before) is to firstly only pay attention to what's happening in places that your character can hear and see. Anything else will only tempt you to use OOC knowledge and get you distracted.

When I first started out, which wasn't too long ago, I tried to read everything but found I performed a lot more efficient if I didn't read everything. And if someone wants something from you they will contact you anyway.

And after a while of simming your typing will improve and you'll get to read more and more of the things going on all over the ship.

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Thanks to all who have helped with the tips and even a couple of you have helped IN accadamy

THANKS to ALL :) B)

It has been a fun two weeks and hopefully a long time to come.

 

:angry: Now any advice on what I need to improve on to help me to graduate?

 

TThanks ( The lousey speelleerr )

 

Cdt.Jimmy

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