One of the most valuable classes I took in high school even though I had no idea at the time. I type fairly fast, 60 to 65 words per minute, touch typing.
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Well, like the typing class I didnt know what the hell I was doing.
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How true. We even had typewriters without printing on keys so you couldn't cheat.
Yehh... I took typing. I remember at first, I was reluctant, because back in the day it still had the stigma as being girlish... secretaries, receptionists and such. It was a different time; don’t judge. But, after a few weeks, I was all Ernest Hemingway killing shit and hinting Nazis on the typewriter... barbaric yawps kinda thing.
Now, I’m mostly hunkered over a 2x3.5 phone screen with my thumbs...
Now, I’m mostly hunkered over a 2x3.5 phone screen with my thumbs...
Yeah I took the class in high school too. Failed it the first time around. Then had to take it again ( mandatory to graduate) and passed. A full two years of keyboarding classes. I can type very fast without looking nowadays.
Can also text without looking. But not as good as some very young kids I've witnessed before. Crazy
Can also text without looking. But not as good as some very young kids I've witnessed before. Crazy
It's so much easier for me to use the phone for this forum. Autocorrect helps a lot as well. Plus I can close threads and warn members while I'm shopping at Target.
Signed up for typing every year in high school but it was always scheduled opposite science courses, so I never actually took the typing. We had manual typewriters for the junior high business classes and electric ones for senior high. I am a fairly fast hunt and pecker using two or three fingers per hand with frequent glances at the keyboard. My wife amazes me, she can type 105 wpm. On here, I am usually using an IPad.
That’s how we did it. Only I think we went low-tech with a piece of paper taped like a flap over the keyboard.
I use my phone quite a bit. And only post pics from my phone.
but at work it’s easier to minimize/maximize the browser window than constantly being on my phone. But I also sit at a computer.
Autocorrect usually screws me up on this dam tablet but when I am work it's a keyboardIt's so much easier for me to use the phone for this forum. Autocorrect helps a lot as well. Plus I can close threads and warn members while I'm shopping at Target.
I had one of those cheapie Smith-Corona portable typewriters in the plastic case at home, and I took typing my first year of high school. We learned on those huge Underwood manuals that are battleship grey colored.
Many, many years later, I worked as a Type Setter, using mini-computer equipment before the adoption of the mouse. Later we turned to QuarkXPress on Macs. At one point, out of the nine typesetters where I was working, I was turning out 22-30% of the daily volume of work by myself.
But of all the typing speed tests I ever took, it seemed that I almost always came out at 69WPM.
(By the way, I've also worked as a Compositor, that's someone who sets lead type in a composing stick by hand for letterpress printing.)
Many, many years later, I worked as a Type Setter, using mini-computer equipment before the adoption of the mouse. Later we turned to QuarkXPress on Macs. At one point, out of the nine typesetters where I was working, I was turning out 22-30% of the daily volume of work by myself.
But of all the typing speed tests I ever took, it seemed that I almost always came out at 69WPM.
(By the way, I've also worked as a Compositor, that's someone who sets lead type in a composing stick by hand for letterpress printing.)
People think their method is always the best, and that isn't always true. But most who learned and use touch typing (keyboarding) would hate to go back to hunt and peck. Once you have the muscle memory, it puts your brain in direct line to your text, and that's very rewarding. You can teach yourself fairly easily, or I know a number of people who have, but I'm glad I had the class to make it more easeful. Soon you are typing whole words and even phrases on automatic pilot. Especially young people, who tend to pick up skills quickly, would do well to give it a go.
I took a class in h.s and can type a blistering 10 words a minute or so. I use two fingers and sometimes actually type without looking but I eventually look down and I can go faster. Looking down I am a maven at 20 words a minute.
One of the best courses I did take in h.s was public speaking. It actually was very useful in my working career.
You should have heard the sales meetings I ran back in my car business days. People bleeding from their eyes, fuck em in the ass with no mercy were just a few of my usual comments. The car business is a unique place to work
One of the best courses I did take in h.s was public speaking. It actually was very useful in my working career.
You should have heard the sales meetings I ran back in my car business days. People bleeding from their eyes, fuck em in the ass with no mercy were just a few of my usual comments. The car business is a unique place to work
I’m an old software guy, so my typing speed on an actual keyboard (last time I took a speed test) was around 80 wpm. Fast for some, woefully slow for others.
At PM.com though I post 99.9% of the time on my iPhone. And while I know where all the letters, etc. are, I disdain this little electronic keyboard ?. I’m lucky to type 15 wpm and autocorrect is all over my arse! I’ve tried turning it off but sadly it makes a bad situation worse lol
ETA: Oh, sorry, got carried away. When actually typing I only see the keyboard occasionally, say I’m on my way to the mouse. I don’t need to see it to type, and all fingers on keyboard, (thumb(s) on spacebar). I do look at my iPhone keypad as I’m always calculating trajectory for my single typing finger.
I only need to type so fast because I only think so fast, haw-haw. I might be a rap or hip-hop fan if I could play it on slow speed. As is, I basically hear no lyrics at all. Or I catch a rhyme here or there, and I'm thinking about it while the rest of the number goes by. As a composer friend said, "You're not supposed to like it." He didn't think I was the intended audience. Eons ago, I marveled at the guys in my Morse Code Service School in the Navy who heard Code at break-neck speed as if someone were talking to them, hearing whole words and phrases, not individual letters. What brain circuitry.
I got a course as a child 60 years ago. But I kept that skill writing throughout my life. Not everything is negative at an advanced age
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