Do you type or do you hunt and peck?

by JimmyPage 36 Replies latest jw friends

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  clarity

  Mix of the two ... hunt and peck & 'real typing' ..oh wait three, a bit of cantleave's stumbling & fumbling.

  Don't know how fast, but I'm fast!!! Btw I can spell!

  c
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  NomadSoul

  I can type 95 WPM with a 80% accuracy.

  I can type 70 WPM with a 95% accuracy.
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  jay88

  I can type 90 wpm with 30% accuracy.

  and 30 wpm with 90% accuracy.
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  Nickolas

  Some of you folks are blindingly fast. I just took a speed test here. 67 wpm with no errors. I took typing in high school. Hated it. They were manual typewriters with no letters on the keys. Best part about it was being surrounded by girls in miniskirts.
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  tec

  78 wpm, per Nickolas' test. But I had two errors. teh (which I notice that I do all the time. I think I have disleic fingers, and my 'eks' still isn't working on my keyboard, lol) Also Cictory vines instead of Victory vines. Don't know how I did that :)
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  james_woods

  Yes, learned to type in the early 1960s. We had mostly manual typewriters in school, but I begged until I was allowed to have one of the 2 or 3 IBM selectrics (the type ball kind) we had in the class.

  It did turn out to be a good asset for computer programming, but todays keyboard typing is much different than the old stenographic kind:

  For one thing, speed is not so important now - usually you are thinking and composing as you type, so the convenience of knowing the keys by touch is more important than blazing speed.

  For another - perfect character by character accuracy is no longer an issue. With instant editing, you can fix any error in real time - provided you can spell, write correct english, and are not too lazy to do so.

  BTW - do they still teach secretarial shorthand in school? I took it in high school for college note taking but really never used it much.
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  jaguarbass

  I can type. I took the test that Botchtower Society posted. The first time I got 25, the second time 35 wpm

  I took typing in the 7th grade. I type every day at work. I'm not fast, but I'm fast enough for what I have to do.

  I work in a jail and have to type police reports all the time maybe thats why I am slow, I deal with a lot of unusual

  names and I try to spell them right the first time. We get counselled if we spell inmates names wrong.
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  FirstLastName

  I took typing in 7th grade and was horrific at it. I pecked the key board for years - I think now I have a peck/type style now that is not at all conventional, but seems to work with how I type.

  I was watching and I move my right hand around a lot.
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  Reopened Mind

  I can type, not near as fast as some of you. But I am very good at spelling and grammar.

  Reopened Mind
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  SirNose586

  60-70 wpm normally, 90 wpm if motivated.