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From: Ian Rawlings on 1 Dec 2008 09:41 On 2008-12-01, Daniel James <wastebasket(a)nospam.aaisp.org> wrote: > I'm sure it's still taught, but apparently not in schools. SWMBO learnt > to touch-type at secondary school but none of our various nipots or > offsprogs of friends seem to have the opportunity. I'm sure it's still > taught at secretarial colleges and the like. I was taught to touchtype at an electronics college, trained up to be a radio officer on merchant navy vessels, touch-typing apparently being a requirement, but didn't have to do morse code unless I went on to do the actual going-to-sea option. Most seem to do OK-ish but many people are amazed at the speed I can type at, however what they don't notice is that most of the rattling keypresses are on the delete key ;-) -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! http://youtube.com/user/tarcus69 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarcus/sets/
From: Owain on 1 Dec 2008 10:17 Ian Rawlings wrote: > Most seem to do OK-ish but many people are amazed at the speed I can > type at, however what they don't notice is that most of the rattling > keypresses are on the delete key ;-) When I 'learnt' to type at college the speed test was done with a carbon copy so that corrections with the corrector ribbon were counted. -5 characters for each error, IIRC. Owain
From: Ian Rawlings on 1 Dec 2008 10:37 On 2008-12-01, Owain <owain47125(a)stirlingcity.coo.uk> wrote: > When I 'learnt' to type at college the speed test was done with a carbon > copy so that corrections with the corrector ribbon were counted. -5 > characters for each error, IIRC. When I learned, it was on an electronic typewriter, slightly odd as computers were far more common at the time, and even my home computer of the time (Acorn Archimedes) had a full-sized keyboard. The college also had a fair few computers available. I tried typing on a manual typewriter a little while ago, and soon got sore fingers, those keys were tiny and the spaces between them just right for getting my fingers wedged into! -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! http://youtube.com/user/tarcus69 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarcus/sets/
From: Darren Salt on 1 Dec 2008 11:44 I demand that Martin Gregorie may or may not have written... > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:17:28 +0000, Daniel James wrote: >> Now that just about everyone has access to a PC and needs that skill they >> don't seem to teach it anyone any more. > Does that mean that touch typing is a dieing art? Wouldn't know. :-) > I taught myself to type, initially on ASR-33 Teletypes and a Flexowriter > since those was the only keyboards available at the time, and in > consequence am a strictly two finger typist. I believe this is pretty > common among self-taught typists, with touch-typing being almost a hall- > mark of people who have attended typing classes. Curious. I'm something of a five-fingered typist, but now that I think about it I find myself becoming a five-fingered typoist. Well, seven fingers if you count Shift key usage, I suppose... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + RIPA NOTICE: NO CONSENT GIVEN FOR INTERCEPTION OF MESSAGE TRANSMISSION Beware of friends who are false and deceitful.
From: Will Kemp on 1 Dec 2008 13:20
Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:17:28 +0000, Daniel James wrote: > >> Now that just about everyone has access to a PC and needs that skill >> they don't seem to teach it anyone any more. >> > Does that mean that touch typing is a dieing art? > > I taught myself to type, initially on ASR-33 Teletypes and a Flexowriter > since those was the only keyboards available at the time, and in > consequence am a strictly two finger typist. I believe this is pretty > common among self-taught typists, with touch-typing being almost a hall- > mark of people who have attended typing classes. I taught myself to touch type back in about 83, when i got an electronic (daisywheel) typewriter. Before that, i'd used a manual, and two-finger typing wasn't a problem - if you touched the key next to the one you were typing, not much happened, except perhaps a jam up. But with the electronic typewriter, both letters printed and you had to correct it, which wasn't a big deal because it had a backspace key which corrected it with correcting tape, but the tape was expensive and it slowed you down. So i got a book from the library and taught myself to touch type. I never bothered teaching myself the numbers though, which i rather regret, but still can't be bothered doing! I can type about 60wpm i think, maybe a bit faster. Nowadays, of course, it's even easier - you can download touchtyping tutor software. I had to find good one for a mate a few months back and letterchase ( http://letterchase.com ) seemed to be the best one i could find. He certainly found it easy to learn with. You have to pay if you want to use it for more than 30 days, but it's not much. I'd definitely recommend anyone who uses computers a lot to learn to touchtype. It makes life so much easier. |