Jim in Anchorage Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Jim, a friend of mine, told me to use the free online typing games. He said that's what he did and he's really fast... Might be fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Might be fun That's a riot. I love the pressure. Great learning tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 If I survive, I'll do it Not to worry. Dual controls. I will take us directly to the scene of the crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frit0 Bandit0 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 That's a riot. I love the pressure. Great learning tool oh oh, the completion is on. Maybe I'll learn how to type yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 oh oh, the completion is on. Maybe I'll learn how to type yet. Competition. One more bounced from the secretarial pool. I like my odds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Practice. Typing games, a thousand posts on here, whatever strikes your fancy. I'm still no 100-wpm touch-typist, but I know I've gotten better since I started filing a few thousand words a week. Good thing, too, since I wore the letters off this laptop keyboard less than a year after I bought it. (The rest of the family can't use it now unless they look at another keyboard as a reference. Ha. Ha. ) Then again, I know a guy who's been working at a newspaper almost as long as I've been alive -- he won a national writing award last month, in fact -- and he still hunts and pecks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Practice. Typing games, a thousand posts on here, whatever strikes your fancy. I'm still no 100-wpm touch-typist, but I know I've gotten better since I started filing a few thousand words a week. Good thing, too, since I wore the letters off this laptop keyboard less than a year after I bought it. (The rest of the family can't use it now unless they look at another keyboard as a reference. Ha. Ha. ) Then again, I know a guy who's been working at a newspaper almost as long as I've been alive -- he won a national writing award last month, in fact -- and he still hunts and pecks... Well thanks. Now I don't feel so bad. I have gotten a little better with time; at lest I no longer look at the keyboard for 2 minutes and swear the company riped me off and never put a 'y' on it I really don't care how fast I type. I just want to be able to do it without looking at the keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Take a big piece of construction paper, tape it to the top of your keyboard, put your hands under it. You won't be able to see your hands, and you'll get used to typing real quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I took typing in high school. Nothing better than spending an hour in a class mostly full of chicks. It probably was the class that I use the most considering how much time I spend on the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLiveRalph Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 When you're on the main Stadium Wall board, and you see the most recent post from Off the Wall, the topic is: "How hard is it" You sick perverts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 How hard is it? That's a rather personal question, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopsGuy Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 My HS "keyboarding" teacher was a visionary. She said, "Everyone will need to learn to type. You'll be using word processors or computers in college and printing out your papers. Someday we'll all be communicating by typing into computers." That was in 1987. Of course, she didn't think we'd need to learn to type with our thumbs on a Blackberry. Oh - she was hot, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUFootball29 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Jim, one thing you can do that will really help when learning to type is get a sheet of paper that completely covers the keyboard and teach your fingers to find the home keys (F and J on PC, D and K on Mac) and be able to move without seeing the keyboard. It sucks at first, but that is how I learned and after a week or two your muscle memory kicks in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Oh - she was hot, too. Link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopsGuy Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Link? I just Googled her. She's still teaching in the same school district, but I didn't see any photos. I'm sure that 23 years later, she's probably lost a few steps (we all have). She was probably mid-30s then, so she's probably pushing 60 these days. I need a time machine. (Typed this entire post without looking at the keyboard, though.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUFootball29 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I just Googled her. She's still teaching in the same school district, but I didn't see any photos. I'm sure that 23 years later, she's probably lost a few steps (we all have). She was probably mid-30s then, so she's probably pushing 60 these days. I need a time machine. (Typed this entire post without looking at the keyboard, though.) Get a hot tub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I learned typing high school freshman year. Same here...everyone had to take typing and home ec. Our typing teacher was a B word but she was a hottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyT Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Took typing in HS and it's probably the most truly useful thing that I ever took away from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaGimp Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 bery gard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I'm of this generation, so I learned at home when I was 6 and at school when I was 8. If you work at it long enough it becomes complete muscle memory, even to the point where you fix mistakes just as quickly as you type regularly. My Dad is a meteorologist, so he's constantly on computers...but for some reasons he still chooses to hunt and peck. I've encouraged him vigorously to learn typing, but he's just resistant to it for some reason. To me, it's a compulsory skill for our modern times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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