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Post by deathstar on Sept 28, 2023 19:41:53 GMT -5
So, typists, did you learn to type in school or before school and do you use home row?
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Post by bigballofyarn on Sept 28, 2023 19:44:11 GMT -5
Mavis Beacon taught me typing on Windows 3.1 long before I had a typing class in school.
However, I don't type "correctly" as in I invented my own way to type. I can still type close to 100 words per minute without even looking at the keys. The only time I would encounter an issue is if I'm met with a keyboard that's split in half. Some people actually have those. I type a little more with my right hand than my left hand.
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Post by deathstar on Sept 28, 2023 20:11:44 GMT -5
That's really fast. I've seen some of your results. 95 wpm and stuff.
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Post by Mountain Reader on Sept 28, 2023 20:12:19 GMT -5
There was a class and I hated it because what they wanted me to do with my fingers made no sense. I was using a computer before that class and had to relearn.
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Post by Takamaka on Sept 28, 2023 20:40:40 GMT -5
I had to learn on an actually typewriter.
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Post by Sweet Dreams Are Made of These on Sept 28, 2023 20:41:10 GMT -5
Mechanical type writer, not even electric was my jam, and then never needed that ever again.
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Post by Andrew on Sept 28, 2023 21:08:33 GMT -5
I did have one but I kinda do my own thing. I'm not always on home row.
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Post by Mountain Reader on Sept 29, 2023 4:59:03 GMT -5
Wow 100.... I'm so slow
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Post by TimidZiggy on Sept 29, 2023 4:59:28 GMT -5
I remember my broken heart when I learned Mavis Beacon wasn't a real human.
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Post by Mountain Reader on Sept 29, 2023 4:59:37 GMT -5
^The beginnings of AI learning.
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Post by luciddreams on Sept 29, 2023 6:15:13 GMT -5
I learned home row and all in school, but I don't type that way too much anymore.
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Post by Idan Keys on Sept 29, 2023 7:35:59 GMT -5
Did not have in my education.
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Post by Tim05 on Sept 29, 2023 7:41:33 GMT -5
My dad had a laptop for work when I was kid long before they were commonplace. The computer had a game on it, which was sort of space invaders like, where you had to type words as they came from the top of screen down before they reached the bottom. At higher levels it started introducing more things - sentences, numbers, all that type of stuff. That's how I learned, playing this game.
By the time I got to high school I had to take a keyboarding class. The first day we had to take a test to set our base words-per-minute, to compare to the end of class how much we improved. I took mine, and the teacher got the results and literally thought I was cheating. He made me retake it with him standing behind me. When I did around 100 each time, he told me I didn't need the calss and to go to the office and I would just have study hall that semester instead of keyboarding
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Post by Queen of Hearts on Sept 29, 2023 8:57:47 GMT -5
Tim05, How do you even cheat on a typing test? You have to hit the keys.
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Post by stardust on Sept 29, 2023 11:54:51 GMT -5
Meh I was using a computer before school.. So it didn't change much for me.
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