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Post by katlady on Sept 25, 2022 4:06:45 GMT
Do you know how to touch type? Did you learn it in school?
I learned in school (high-school, it was an elective), and it is a skill I am grateful to have. I can run a 10-key without looking too.
I have co-workers who type with two fingers. LOL! My group mainly works with numbers, but they still have to type memos and reports. Some are pretty fast at it, I will admit.
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Post by Linda on Sept 25, 2022 4:13:23 GMT
yes - took a night school class during high school. I'm not as fast or quite as accurate as I used to be but that's a lack of practice.
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Post by rickmer on Sept 25, 2022 4:16:28 GMT
Yes-ish. i took typing in grade 10. mr harris was a dick. i don't credit him with the skill at all. it was 100% using it over the past 30 years and while yes, the home row taught me the basics... it was the real world application that made it stick. although clearly, i struggle with the shift key for caps... lol!!
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Post by malibou on Sept 25, 2022 4:18:53 GMT
I can type without looking, as my mom made all of take typing in high school. I'm not fast, but I am accurate. Dh did not take typing, and uses two fingers on his right hand and one on his left. He is crazy fast and accurate. His job required a lot of typing and he found his way.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Sept 25, 2022 4:20:29 GMT
I learnt in primary school, but then had proper typing classes when I got into high school (on electric typewriters, just to age myself). I taught myself to do the number keypad as I've had a couple of jobs where we did a lot of number based data entry.
I agree two finger typists can get pretty fast, but I will never be one of them, so I hate typing on my phone as I feel incredibly slow and uncoordinated, even with the swipe predictive text.
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Post by pinklady on Sept 25, 2022 4:22:51 GMT
Yes, my mom made me take typing in 7th grade. I thought it was the most useless class ever! Boy was I wrong! I’m so glad I took the class because computers became a”thing” and knowing how to type has been so helpful.
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Post by pinklady on Sept 25, 2022 4:25:49 GMT
I learnt in primary school, but then had proper typing classes when I got into high school (on electric typewriters, just to age myself). . Me too! I remember using the little white out tabs to correct mistakes. 😆
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Post by elaine on Sept 25, 2022 4:31:03 GMT
I, along with everyone else in my school district, took typing in 10th grade.
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Post by catck on Sept 25, 2022 4:32:36 GMT
I used to be able to touch type on a typewriter but can’t on a computer. Learnt on a manual typewriter in school and also took Pitman shorthand which I never used in the clerical job I had when I left school.
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Post by freecharlie on Sept 25, 2022 4:37:59 GMT
Yes, I think we should still teach it
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Post by AussieMeg on Sept 25, 2022 4:40:33 GMT
I taught myself to touch type on my mum's old typewriter, using her school typing lesson book, when I was a young teen. We did have typing classes at high school, which I took as an elective for one term, in maybe Year 9?
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Post by lisacharlotte on Sept 25, 2022 4:51:20 GMT
I learnt in primary school, but then had proper typing classes when I got into high school (on electric typewriters, just to age myself). I taught myself to do the number keypad as I've had a couple of jobs where we did a lot of number based data entry. I agree two finger typists can get pretty fast, but I will never be one of them, so I hate typing on my phone as I feel incredibly slow and uncoordinated, even with the swipe predictive text. Well, just to date myself, I learned on a manual typewriter in high school in 1979. It was an elective and I'm glad I took it. I have spent my entire working career having to type.
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Post by Merge on Sept 25, 2022 5:07:58 GMT
Yes, I took typing in 9th grade. Back in the day I could type over 100wpm. Not a skill anyone asks for now! 😂
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Post by Merge on Sept 25, 2022 5:08:12 GMT
Yes, I took typing in 9th grade. Back in the day I could type over 100wpm. Not a skill anyone asks for now! 😂
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Post by leannec on Sept 25, 2022 5:49:09 GMT
I also took typing in high school ... those credits, in grade 12, went toward my diploma ... easy credits to score!!!
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Post by cadoodlebug on Sept 25, 2022 5:51:41 GMT
Learned in 8th grade. My DS had keyboarding in kindergarten.
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Post by SabrinaP on Sept 25, 2022 6:22:52 GMT
I took typing in high school as a freshman on an actual typewriter.
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Post by Embri on Sept 25, 2022 7:41:28 GMT
Yup, 'Keyboarding' was a required class in Grade 9 at my high school.
Honestly it's the skill I used and still use the most that I acquired during those years. I hated the actual class because our teacher was draconian and acted like she'd sucked on a lemon all day, every day, but the skill stuck and I definitely do not regret it. I don't know what my current WPM is but it's decently high. I can type only a little slower than I can talk. We learned on ancient Pentium computers that only ran this ASCII program (no graphics) with a blue background and white text. There were wooden boxes that went over the keyboards so you couldn't look at your fingers. "Limp spiders! Why are your hands so stiff, I want to see limp spiders!" I still remember whatever-her-name was grumbling that at us regularly.
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 25, 2022 8:50:55 GMT
Yes, I learned in high school, and it has been a good skill to have.
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Post by gillyp on Sept 25, 2022 8:56:27 GMT
I taught myself to touch type on a manual typewriter with one of those Teach Yourself To . . books eons ago when my first employer said they wanted me to learn. I should have realised at the time that he just wanted a spare typist but, to be fair, it’s been a great skill to have and I have never once regretted it. I could type faster than all the girls in the typing pool too, so I must have done something right. I actually enjoy typing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2022 9:37:30 GMT
Same here. Had typing in middle school I think. It was the clerical jobs I had after that really honed my speed. For sure at time, I typed 100 wpm. I became proficient on the 10 key as well in the accounting job I was at for 10 years. I would have to practice the 10 key to do it blind like I used to.
DD thinks my blind typing is a super power! Blows her mind!
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Post by Restless Spirit on Sept 25, 2022 11:12:29 GMT
It been eons ago, but yes, in high school. I think I’ve mentioned it here before. I took it in high school on a manual typewriter. You had to have really strong wrists to throw that carriage fast, smooth and all the way to the end. The teacher was the golf coach and you could tell he hated having to teach typing. The typing room was in the center of the building with no windows. For our tests he would turn off the lights and read what we had to type - in total darkness. Try doing that - do a manual carriage return, and get your hands back on the typewriter in the proper position - in pitch black.
I was also pretty fast at using a 10 key adding machine, touch only. My first office job was in accounts payable, (dark ages - no computers). Those skills came in pretty handy.
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Post by joelise on Sept 25, 2022 11:18:29 GMT
I learnt to touch type on a typewriter at school, but since I’ve only ever typed on an iPad or iPhone for years I’m probably a bit rusty!
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Post by monklady123 on Sept 25, 2022 11:19:23 GMT
Yes. I learned in high school back in the Days of the Dinosaur when it was called "typing" not "keyboarding". lol. In fact, we learned on a manual typewriter. It was the most useful class I took in high school, except perhaps for the English classes over the years that taught me to write well. When I was in college I earned a lot of money by typing papers for other kids who didn't know how to type. I remember one girl who said she refused to learn how to type because then she'd get typecast (no pun intended, haha) as "just a secretary" after college. I thought that was silly because she didn't have to tell anyone that she knew how to type, when she applied for jobs. But meanwhile she was paying me a fortune to type her papers. After college I worked for awhile in a department at the University of Pittsburgh that had a lot of international students. We administrative people were allowed to stay after hours and type papers for these students, using the university typewriters and paper. It was a great deal, and wow some of those wealthy Middle Eastern and Nigerian students paid us well! And by that time we were using the IBM Selectric kind of typewriters so that made everything even easier. Yep, one of the best classes I took in high school. lol
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Sept 25, 2022 11:41:57 GMT
I vaguely remember typing class in school. But I feel like I learned more at home. My Dad was a very early adopter (think mid-80's) on desktop computers (he was a firefighter) and knew the sooner he got us on and using them the better off we'd be. He wasn't wrong, I did have a leg up once we started computer classes in school. There was a typing game, floppy disk, that we always used. You were a spaceship and had to shoot the letters coming at your ship. I'm a pretty fast/accurate typer and I feel like I have that game to thank for it.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Sept 25, 2022 11:44:42 GMT
I took typing in high school but never really mastered the art of typing without looking. In fact, I don’t even position my fingers in the way I was taught. But what I do works for me. I’m fairly fast and accurate - with a few edits for reversing letters in a word mainly.
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Post by lisae on Sept 25, 2022 12:05:17 GMT
I didn't realize that typing was taught any other way. Do people really look at the keyboard while they type?
My HS class had half manual typewriters and half electric as they were transitioning to electric. My first quarter was on a manual one where we were primarily concentrating on speed. THe "t" key cap kept coming off and I'd have to look for it on the floor. Needless to say, my grade that quarter wasn't the best.
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Post by melanell on Sept 25, 2022 12:19:51 GMT
Semi. When I had a larger keyboard, more similar to the ones that went with the electric typewriters I learned on, I could do a fair job of typing without peeking. But when I switched to a smaller keyboard, I lost the ability. I was always lining up incorrectly. Even partially looking I still mess up, LOL. When I look I just look at the center of the keyboard and the parts my hands are hiding I sometimes mess up and have to go fix.
My biggest issues, though, are that I seem to have lost the rhythm of proper typing. I tend to place my spaces wrong, especially with small words or transpose letters a LOT. When I'm doing something like Peaing, I don't even always go back and fix them. I just leave them be or I'd spend half my time here correcting those mistakes.
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Post by Monica* on Sept 25, 2022 12:23:23 GMT
My HS class had half manual typewriters and half electric as they were transitioning to electric. Same here! And I always got stuck on one of the manuals. It did help me develop strong, accurate, and fast skills though. Anyone remember the bell that would ding signaling you to throw the carriage? You would have to know what your window of strokes was once you heard it. One useless class was shorthand. What a waste of time.
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Post by gorgeouskid on Sept 25, 2022 12:28:33 GMT
I wasn't allowed to take typing in high school. College bound girls didn't take business classes (or home econ). I was enrolled as a freshman, and they came in and pulled me from class and put me in something else I can't remember.
I used Mavis Beacon and am a pretty good touch typist now.
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