Do you type or do you hunt and peck? (page 3)

charlie brown jr.

I do alittle of both .....

I also took typing in school.. and glad I did...

What's really funny about typing is ...........

Kids can Kick our ass on typing ....

AND THEY ONLY USE THEIR THUMBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

learned in dark ages - mid 60's. knew i'd have to get it down along with the shorthand to support myself thru college or in case i married WAY TO YOUNG and needed to work. excelled at both, fortunately. TOO BAD I DON'T TAKE THE TIME TO PROOFREAD. always rushing.

straightshooter

I can type about 45 wpm. I am grateful that I took a typing course in high school. It has benefited me very much.

Lady Lee

In spite of college and university and all those papers I wrote, my bio (which still isn't nearly done) and all the posts I have made on a board before I got her and since I am here I still can't touch type. I like:

cantleave's stumbling & fumbling

I make tons of errors and most of the time have to look at the keys. I can spell. I just can't type .

bigmac

clearly i'm the slowest on here---i have to spell check everything, thats wi i dontt make misteaks.

Jim_TX

I took typing in High School - my 12th grade year. It has helped me using the keyboards on computers.

My speed was enough to pass the course - I believe we were using electric typewriters at the time... but some were better than others. My speed back then was about 34 or so words per minute.

The teacher favored those gals who they figured needed to learn typing skills over some guy that wasn't going to use typing for a living - and so I got to use the worst typewriters in the classroom. (In spite of that - I still passed the course.)

Nowadays, I type using a combination of hunt-n-peck, and home-key typing. My speed... what speed. I ain't in any hurry.

I remember my daughter asking - when she was a kiddo - why the keys on her VIC-20 weren't in alphabetical order.

She had a cartridge that plugged in to the VIC-20 that helped her learn her ABC's. I think it was a good thing that the keys weren't in any order - as that helped her learn her ABC's.

(Sorry, I digress...)

Regards,

Jim TX

snowbird

I'm remembering an AWAKE! article entitle Qwerty vs Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, or something like that.

Tee hee hee.

Isn't it funny how the mind works?

Syl

White Dove

I would be surprised if schools taught shorthand, anymore, as dicta-birds replaced dictation, and then computers have voice to screen capabilities.

Leolaia

So I did the test that botchtowersociety cited, and I averaged between 50-58 wpm with some errors (it seems to count errors even if they have been corrected); if I hadn't stopped to correct the errors, it would have been faster. I did the test Nickolas cited, and performed 73 wpm with no errors.

I took typing in 8th grade (manual typewriter), 9th grade (electric), and 10th grade (computer), and typed very consistly throughout college and university, and ever since.

AGuest

I used to type 90-100wpm (peace to you all!). I was a legal word processing tech virtually right out of high school and you HAD to type fast, very fast, to get the "good" jobs. And I did. Anyone remember Wang? CPT? Made my bread and butter typing for years. Learned on a manual in 6th grade (as someone said, "back in the dark ages"), then an electric (anyone remember the IBM Selectric? Selectric II - which could CORRECT? WHOOHOO!).

Now, though, it depends on the keyboard. On an ergonomic, about 80wpm. On a regular keyboard, about 60-70, or so. On a laptop, which is what I primarily use these days... 45-50... on a "good" day ("bad" days being when my hands and wrists are in SO much pain from using the regular laptop keyboard!).

Like most here, though, haven't hunted/pecked since elementary school.

Peace, chickens!

SA, on her own...

Do you type or do you hunt and peck?