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TYPING......like on a keyboard..............
mohawk600
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I was sitting here going through forum topics and responding here and there, and for some reason, I just thought of the QWERTY keyboard, and how I learned to type.
It is all automatic...........almost.
I took a typing class back in high school just to fill an elective. It turned out to be one of the most valuable courses that I ever took. I think I got up to 55 wpm, which is half of what a "skilled typest" can do. It still amazes me that my fingers know the QWERTY keyboard without even looking at it..............LOL..........mostly..........muscle memory.
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Typing class was also a good way to
Meet girls.
I took a typing class as a HS freshman just as a fill in class . sadly I am still a two finger key board user
where I use to work I also worked in a office off and on for several years depending on what roll was in
I had many people comment they had never see any one type as fast as I could using only two fingers ( one each hand )
back in school days I sat in the back of the class room and several times I got stuck at a blank key board the class had more than a few to push you to learn just a wasted day for me
but I always fell in with the goof offs what really distracted me ( a lot of us ) we had a typing instructor ( teacher ) right out of school her self , she was maybe 5'4" or so long black hair but wore mini skirts and really low cut tops . and of course we ( my fellow young hot blooded guys ) would call her back to help us out more often than not so of course she would lean over providing a glimpse 😍 and the guy next desk over had the mini skirt portion in his face 😉 win win
but I never really picked up on typing I got some what OK with out looking and be able to use both hands and all my fingers
but then had a 25 year never touched a type writer gap so now I still watch my key hits about 97% of the time
Never knew that was the name for this keyboard. I took typing back in school too. Finally broke 50 wpm before the school year ended. Like you, it was one of the most valuable classes that I took, since I have actually used what I learned throughout my adult life. My wife is a ONE finger typist and has me typing anything she needs done.
Am getting kind of fat fingered once in a while now days, and have to correct some.
I'm thankful that computer keyboards followed the same set up as the old type writers (sort of) !
I learned to type on those old manual (non-electric) machines in a one semester class in 10th grade. Got up to 45 WPM accurately and on those old typewriters considered it fast enough! Went several decades without touching a typewriter but found out quickly that it came right back to me like riding a bike when home computers came along!
That one class in high school was probably the best learning experience I ever had, except for a couple shop classes!
I was the only guy in the typing class my junior year. Took it on advice from the dean of boys who was some sort of newspaper writer in his earlier career. I sure loved those mini skirts in class. Even got to play with the new electric typewriters. I typed up my Wifes National Board Certification papers for her degree when they were due since she had been in an auto accident. I still have my Smith Corona Sterling 12 in the hard case and it still works.
Hey cool, you guys can type. I just hammer the keys, sometimes hitting the right one to make a word. I spend more time correcting the mess than I do actually typing it out.
The biggest errors are caps on the first two letters like this "TRump" and spacing "the" like this "th e" then with no space entering the next word like this; th ebullet.
Myfingerscantkeepupwithmybrain
I had typing class in 7th grade and 8th grade in the early 80s. 7th grade was with manual typewriters and in 8th grade we had electric typewriters.
Switching from manual to electric was literally like swiping to a full auto. When you are used to pressing down so hard to work the action on the manual and then go to electric where you just touch a key and empty the magazine across the page.
I am surprised that got through your spell checker.
(Typed on a keyboard about the size of a slice of bread - with one finger)
If it wernt fer spel chekr mi tiping wood bee unredible. Bob
Typing was fun but I told the Teacher I wasn't going to take shorthand.
Not only was I one of the few guys in my typing class, but it was an easy A and has served me well in my adult life.
I didn't take typing. Thought it would be a waste of time because I intended to be a pilot. But that was long before computers.
I slogged through college writing papers with two fingers, later became a writer still typing with two fingers, and am typing this the same way. A bit late to try something new, but since I use both forefingers, I can rightfully admit that I'm guilty of stereotyping!
(Laughing at the board censor. It sure is awkward to type with my asterisk!)
I had a typing class 1st period my sophomore year. It was tough typing on those old manual type writers after waiting on the bus in freezing weather in the morning. My hands would be like ice for about half the class. I managed to get up to 55 words per minute.
I thought it would be an easy class. Wrong! The typing teacher was strict. I'm glad he was now. After going over 30 years without doing any typing it came right back to me when we started using computers at work.
I do fine with a full keyboard on my laptop. That stupid smart phone thing that rolls out to type on.....H.E.L.L. Nooooooooo!!!
My texting consists of just hitting an emjoi or whatever you call them little comics. I use my phone to talk to folks.
I took typing in 12th grade I regret letting those 9th grade girls do my typing for me
I should have worked harder at doing it myself
man they were pretty and good at it
Asdfjkl; Only thing I remember.
I took typing in school....it was actually BOE, Business Office Education, and it included shorthand which was put on earth by the devil himself....I'm sure of it. My teacher was this tall, thin, super witchy woman dressed in polyester skirts and BLOUSES with the big floppy bow drooping down her chest. She had hair that was fixed in place by 11 cans of aquanet and glasses that were as big around as her head on each eyeball affixed with a chain. She liked to quote my wrong answers to tests in her booming witchy voice while standing at the corner of my desk. It didn't help that when I didn't know an answer to something I would put down the most ridiculous thing I could think of so......I was entertained listening to her yell some of that crap out in class.
I moved from Minor High to Locust Fork High when I was 15.....and went from BOE to just typing class and from this tall witchy woman that dreamed of being a terror to this 4' tall woman that looked like a bowling ball. The electronic typewriters were not at Locust Fork, so I went from having to lightly type on the keyboard or have a line of letters across the page to this chunk of metal with arms attached to little round keys that made a WHACK sound when you typed. You had to really lean in to get the keys to work too.....typewriter ribbon....it was like going back 20 years in time when I moved schools.
OK-What was that typed statement you practiced on-Something about a dog jumping over the white picket fence . . . .😯
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses all the letters.
But south of the Mason Dixon it's, “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs”
Yep took typing, I remember the quick fox and the nice looking young ladies.
Wood aplenty.😉
I took it in HS knowing that I would need the skill later in life. One of the few times I have ever been correct.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I, too, typing in high school, 35 words a minute. Some of the girls could do 90 wpm.
Later, when we got our first computer, I used a program called Mavis Beacon.
I highly recommend this program for kids and adults.
It was becoming obvious that learning to type would be necessary by the time I was finishing High School. Dedicated word processing typewriters were coming out. IIRC, I shipped an IBM Selectric ahead of me to college, and used it all four years.
By then, Word Perfect was just coming out, which was a quantum leap forward in getting words on paper. The was a mirco-computer package we used before Word Perfect, but the name escapes me now. An improvement over the typewriter, marginally, particularly when coupled with the blazing speed of a star-wheel printer.
Brad Steele
Don, my first one was Easy Writer, which was before Word Perfect by a couple of years. In DOS, you could also use the very primitive edit.exe but IIRC, that had no printing function.
My first printer used a capsule of what seemed to be graphite powder that spit out in dot matrix manner. It had five darkness settings allegedly to save "ink" but the darkest one was barely visible. Then came dot matrix printers that used typewriter ribbons. Eight tiny pins (corresponding to the eight-bit software) hit through the ribbon to make characters.
I had it as a freshman in high school ('74). I can't remember how many WPM I got up to but compared to the rest of the class I was, at best, glacial!
When I went back to college the second time in '87 I picked up one of these Canon Typestar 110's. It was a pretty neat little typewriter/word processor that I used all four years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VWV6p-h2M4
Once the PC arrived, Rocky, the world became a much better place. I remember fighting typing software (8" floppy disk) on an IBM 5120 micro computer. I believe we splurged and got the 32K Ram model.
After my sophomore year in college, I wrote and implemented a job tracking software package as an add-on to the accounting system package that my older brother wrote a couple of years prior. IIRC, the 8" floppy had about 1 Mb capacity, and you could run up to two at a time which would have to contain not only the software package you were writing, but also the data being inputted and generated. Balancing the code you wrote with the disk space you had available was an interesting challenge.
I am continually amazed at the amount of data that is held in my phone as compared to what we had to work with back then.
Brad Steele
QWERTY is the first 5 letters on the upper left of the keyboard..............keyboards are all set up on this configuration.
I wish I could type shorthand............to be able to transcribe conversation in real time like court reporters.......but now I am too old to be energized to learn.
I waited for quite awhile to read responses to my OP.............but, it seems that being able to type is good skill to have.
At 55 WPM.........half by memory and half by sight.........I think I do OK.
Cheers all.
We had to take notes on this little notebook that was split in half....physically writing each word or term as a special squiggle that you had to memorize. This was before the machine thing that you see them typing on in the courtrooms in movies. I guess I'm "that" old. The little squiggles you wrote down, you were supposed to decipher and type up for real humans to read later.....something I never EVER learned to do. It seriously looked like someone had a stroke with a pencil in their hand when you looked at it.