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SMLCHNG wrote:

springparrot wrote:Back in the dark ages, I took typing in high school....on a MANUAL typewriter.

That's what I learned on, then an electric one came out, and thought that was the bomb!!

Me three....and the keys did not have letters on them. You HAD to learn how to type ...

Marnin Grita Guy wrote:I use the two finger method of Carl Kolchak.

I love Kolchak.

And I wish I could have typed as fast as I do now when I was taking typing in high school. I would've beaten Debbie whats-her-name every day....we used to race with each other. Sometimes I won, sometimes she won.

Took typing class in high school. Not very fast but i get it done.

As I recall, we had a chisel, a hammer and stone tablets ......

Typing was a required course in high school .... manual typewriters with unmarked keys.
Hated it then but it served me well ..... computer programming requires LOTS of keying.
If I wasn't at least a competent typist, it would take me forfrickinever.

alphabits wrote:As I recall, we had a chisel, a hammer and stone tablets ......

Typing was a required course in high school .... manual typewriters with unmarked keys.
Hated it then but it served me well ..... computer programming requires LOTS of keying.
If I wasn't at least a competent typist, it would take me forfrickinever.

SMLCHNG wrote:

springparrot wrote:Back in the dark ages, I took typing in high school....on a MANUAL typewriter.

That's what I learned on, then an electric one came out, and thought that was the bomb!!

Me too! And 31 years as an office assistant....You'd never know it by the way I type on here. I look at my posts later and find all kinds of errors. I guess after having to be sooo careful typing for so long that I just don't feel like doing it that way anymore

At work I started typing purchase orders that had 12 carbons. If you made a mistake you needed to scrape off the mistake and use 11 little sheets of carbon paper to make the correction.... There were no pc's and no fax machines. Your phone could take up half your desk so that it could have 36 buttons, one for each person you worked for.

Ahhh the good all days....

If you typed too fast, the keys jammed together

Typing wiz here. Doc can't believe I can type as fast as I can. Learned in high school and took a secretarial class in vo-tech. In that class we learned how to use a MTST and MTSC machines. They were magnetic tape selectric typewriters, which had storage functions. It looked like this:

Never took a typing class, but BN is making me better! I'm really pretty lousy! a n d v e r y s l o w ! ! !

Never took a formal typing class although i did take a computer programming class in high school

Just hunt & peck. Keep telling myself I should learn to type. Maybe someday.

My mother made me take typing the summer before my freshman year of high school. She had two reasons--she said it was an important skill that I would need no matter what I did, and it also would give me a chance to learn my way around the high school before I entered as a freshman (my school had 5400 students at the time and is a huge building).

Absolutely one of the best things she ever made me do (though my skills are not great).

I taught myself how to type many years ago afer I'd gotten my first police job in Hawaii, and we typed our reports on the old manual Smith-Coronas.

I'm probably a so-so typer. I can type most of the time without looking, but on several occasions, I catch myself looking at the keyboard.
On a good day, I can probably do thirty words a minute.

Using 2 to 3 fingers, i can get up to 30+ WPM

When I was in high school, us guys took auto shop... not typing.
what was a guy gonna do by learning typing?
Become a secretary? (remember... it's the '70's)
Computers were not exactly user-friendly in '79

Because I was always a top draftsman, I was always excused from
turning in assignments as typed, since my printing was strong, consistent and legible.
The teachers really weren't doing me any favors.

If my trade hadn't gone almost completely to computers by the '90's
I'd be tapping my pencil, instead of tapping on a keyboard

I taught myself to type back in the 7th or 8th grade. In high school I didn't have to take typing - I was on the newspaper staff and could already type. Thought I'd take it in college to be formally trained to do it correctly - it messed me up worse I can't remember what my speed is - it's been years since I was tested and I'm faster now than then.

I can mostly touch type. I have to look at numbers and symbols. I took typing in 8th grade just to irritate my mother.... she wanted me to take Latin instead.... She said I would NEVER have to type anything...

I p*ssed her off in high school by taking wood shop and small engine repair.... (70s.... girls took home ec, not wood shop. )

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:I can mostly touch type. I have to look at numbers and symbols. I took typing in 8th grade just to irritate my mother.... she wanted me to take Latin instead.... She said I would NEVER have to type anything...

wJs - except I took Latin and typing!

I still have a fourth class book - where we had to put what we wanted to be in the year 2000 (SO LONG AWAY ).

I had written "I want to be a typist - just like my mum" ...

Now ..... back then - I would have typists that would type for me ..... I should not have to do my own

I remember back in the old days at work where we had a "typing folder" where we put our handwritten letters in to be sent to the typing pool to be done. I remember the uproar when they disbanded the typing pool and we had to write our own

They offered redundancy payments to those that could not cope with the technology ...

and now - even State Managers write their own stuff - how times have changed

I'm a writer by profession, so I better know how to type.

I type about 80 wpm+.

Here's the deal, though. The week in typing class when we learned the number row, I was absent, so I never learned how to type my numbers without looking.

I can 10-key wicked fast though.

I took one semester of personal typing in high school, and I always say that it is the class that I've had the most use for in life. I always thought I looked, but one day... all of the sudden, you realize you don't have to.

Here's a typing test:

http://www.powertyping.com/typing_test/ ... test.shtml

I took "keyboarding" back in middle school, 7th grade I think. They had an RV with about 20 typewriters (the IBM ones with the ball thingy) in it, and it went around to all the schools in the area, we'd have the class like once a week or something like that...

I can pretty much type without looking, but, as a lot of people here, I have to look for symbols and stuff, but I've retained it pretty well.