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TonyDtorch
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Type faster.. ;D
Jim18655 said:Deleted since there were several posts while I was typing.
TonyDtorch said:Type faster.. ;D
It is not the keyboards that are slow, it is the typists.xrated said:Sounds to me like all of y'all slow typers need some 3 phase 120 Hz powered keyboards.....that would make them type twice as fast!
xrated said:Sounds to me like all of y'all slow typers need some 3 phase 120 Hz powered keyboards.....that would make them type twice as fast!
kdbgoat said:Not quite twice as fast, but 1.73 though.
Tom said:Chris, says I'm the fastest 1-finger typist she knows
Oldgator73 said:I type much faster when drinking wine. Does that mean wine is a good conductor of electricity.
TonyDtorch said:I took typing in 1968, We had to be able to type 40 words per minute to pass .. you didn't get credit for a misspelled word.
It'd been a lot easier if they had Spell-Check back then.
We were also required to take a 'Basic Electrical' class, We rewired a table lamp and built an AM radio, plus they required us to take Wood or Machine shop.
They don't teach any of that anymore. Industrial arts are looked down upon in modern academia.
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xrated said:Tony.....yea, I learned on a manual typewriter and IIRC, I got up to 53 WPM and you were only allowed two or three mistakes for it to be a counted score. I then had a one hour time slot that needed to be filled and instead of study hall, I chose to take another typing class. This was one that was mostly girls that were wanting to be office assistants/secretaries/etc. One of my buddies on our high school baseball team was in the same situation, so I suggested that we take a typing class. He was like....are you nuts...why would I want to do that? I told him that the class had 35 people in it, I made number 36, and he could be number 37 if he was smart. Why, he asked. I finally told him the truth.....it would me and you and 35 girls in the class. He signed up and we had a great time in a class with 35 girls that semester. Good times.
I did the vocational classes in high school. 3 hours a day, every day, junior AND senior year. I knew that I wanted to be an Electrician when I got out of school and that vocational class provided me with a pretty extensive electrical background.....enough that it automatically allowed me to qualify to get on a list for potentially becoming a Journeyman Electrical Apprentice. That happened in 1977, and I topped out at the end of 1980.
I guess I've gotten Waaaaay off topic here, but I haven't seen the O.P. back here for a few days.
Oldgator73 said:We could start a new topic and call it Typing 101.
Rene T said:I also learned on a manual typewriter. That's why when I hit the keys on my keyboard, I hit them hard. Also I have a problem with white out all over my screen. : ;D