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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Google counts on Nov. 7, 2006
187,000 “hunt and peck”
860 “hunt and pick”
Analysis by Joe Krozel
“Hunt and peck” is a style of typing for those who do not know the conventional method. It seems the word “pick” could work just as well as “peck.”
Examples:
NEW POST YOUR PROGRESS PAGE – Dear Janis Message BoardBut I am using my right hand of sorts – typing with left and hunt and pick with right. Yes, the hand is getting better. Thanks for asking. ...
www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/dearja … 5&trail=45 – 37k – Cached – Similar pages
Checking Up on OurselvesIf you are writing a letter on a typewriter with the “hunt and pick†system when you should be in the field selling, then you are just a $10-a-week typist, ...
www.advisortoday.com/200609/checkingup.html – 27k – Cached – Similar pages
Speech Recognition Technology Discussion List: >Recognitionis a joy to use compared to my previous “hunt and pick” typing, which was incredibly frustrating and didn’t leave me any time for thinking, so that I’d …
www.edc.org/spk2wrt/hypermail/0318.html – 6k – Cached – Similar pages
wordtank alternativeOf course, the keyboard (full QWERTY) is tiny, and you can forget about two-handed touch typing. I have developed a one-handed “hunt-and-pick” which works …
ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/wordtank.alternative – 9k – Cached – Similar pages
David’s Story In 1977 my plight with Lyme disease began with an …I can no longer write shorthand, and my typing speed is down to probably 15 words per minute, at best, with the hunt and pick method. ...
www.angelfire.com/ny2/James/page40.html – 9k – Cached – Similar pages
Re: Milankovich CyclesThe latter is due to a rather crappy keyboard and exacerbates the fact that I “hunt and pick” type! Regards, Thomas R. Lipka Paleontological/Geologoical …
dml.cmnh.org/1995Jun/msg00599.html – 10k – Cached – Similar pages
Olave Baden Powell – My Granny, Lady BPShe typed with two fingers, ‘hunt and pick’ style but at great speed, ... The typing was very personal, not a trained style but came onto the paper like her …
www.olavebadenpowell.org/life/stories/excuse.htm – 7k – Cached – Similar pages
I apologize for not getting back to those of you who have called …He’s dreading learning the hunt-and-pick method of typing so perhaps he’ll dictate to me. Probably not the only thing he’ll try and dictate to me, either. ...
astro.berkeley.edu/~marc/stroke/letters.htm – 101k – Cached – Similar pages
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