Where & how did you Learn to type?

eamoss · 21-07-2006 09:25PM #1

So where did you learn to type and how(like on computer or typewriter)?

For me I started using computers when I was only 6/7 years old but didn’t really learn to type till later on. I was sent to typing class at the age of 12 and the teacher knew if we had pc's all we would do would mess on them so we had electric typewriters and the adults would have the pc's but they where in another room. Everything was done manually like she had an egg timer and we would have to count up the words and do the math. But I hated going to the class because right beside it was a rough estate. Then I stopped that and started typing class in School and was using Mavis Beacon where I got up to a speed of 30wpm. There was a girl in the class who was there before me and her highest was 5wpm

don’t know when I stopped going to that class but I only did it for one year and know I have a speed of 46wpm.

21-07-2006 09:28PM

I feel inadequate, I have no typing stories. Certainly nothing about egg timers and rough estates and the dummy stuck on 5wpm.

Saruman · 21-07-2006 09:29PM

I learnt using a keyboard..,. i pressed the keys and after a while i figured out i was typing

muckwarrior · 21-07-2006 09:32PM

I've been using computers for nearly 10 years, my job is to write code all day, and I still can't type! properly

projectmayhem · 21-07-2006 09:36PM

when i was a kid we had a spectrum zx which you could run a notepad thing on. then i migrated to my dads work laptop to play little crappy games. then the internet came along, and my discovery of chatrooms gave birth to my unbelievable ability to type like a secretary on acid

Terry · 21-07-2006 09:36PM

slef tauhgt.

Ruu_Old · 21-07-2006 09:38PM

Mavis Beacon* taught me to type.

*'cha right!

Lorri_L · 21-07-2006 09:41PM

I learnt by starting work as an administrator! Couldn't type for years even though I was using computers all the time. And then discovered if I typed quicker I could doss more in work!

robinph · 21-07-2006 09:49PM

muckwarrior wrote:

I've been using computers for nearly 10 years, my job is to write code all day, and I still can't type! properly

Touch typing isnt going to help you much with that though so it's not really worth bothering with.

muckwarrior · 21-07-2006 09:51PM

robinph wrote:

Touch typing isnt going to help you much with that though so it's not really worth bothering with.

I guess that's what code completion/intelli-sense was invented for

Gone West · 21-07-2006 10:00PM

I was born with genetic knowledge of how to type

WhiteWashMan · 21-07-2006 10:01PM

i keep looking for this mythic shift key....

daiixi · 21-07-2006 10:07PM

ahh good ol' Mavis Beacon (and a strict mother) taught me how to type.. followed by three weeks of intensive typing practice in "Computer Studies" in each of years 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.. have owned computers since I was about 9... long time that *nods*

emeraldstar · 21-07-2006 10:14PM

I mostly taught myself, but i remember in first and second year in school we had to do a typing lesson each week, but every now and again the teacher would come around and hold a sheet of paper over our hands to see how we did without looking at the keyboard
...it was really bad though, no one learned anything from it

Terry · 21-07-2006 10:33PM

WhiteWashMan wrote:

i keep looking for this mythic shift key....

i'm told it's a lot easier than using the caps lock key, but i gave up looking for it years ago.

WhiteWashMan · 21-07-2006 10:36PM

i dont know, some people seemed to think its a disability, rather than an actual choice just not to use capitals*

who knew!

*by choice, i obviously mean lazy.

Terry · 21-07-2006 10:46PM

I kNoW wHaT yOu MeAn.

sorry. bebo mode just kicked in.

my fingers are too fat for these small keys.
the backspace key is about to break.

21-07-2006 10:47PM

What's a typewriter? Self-taught myself to word process on computer when much younger.

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monkeyfudge · 21-07-2006 11:02PM

I had a Commodore Vic-20 in the early 80's and the only way to play games was to type in the code that you'd get for free in magazines like C&VG. That got me very comfortable with the keyboard at a young enough age.

Typing was also a required class in my first year of college, so I got the hang of touch typing then.

And these days I actually teach computers myself, and a large part of that is getting people comfortable with using the keyboard... I usually let Mavis take those classses while I hide in the corner and nurse a hangover.

mp3guy · 21-07-2006 11:04PM

At home, with TypeToLearn software, by myself. When I was 8 or something probably.

Giblet · 21-07-2006 11:09PM

Just kept on typing from a young age. I can't type in the classical typing way but I'm damn fast in my guitarist way of typing.

Terry · 21-07-2006 11:11PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

I had a Commodore Vic-20 in the early 80's and the only way to play games was to type in the code that you'd get for free in magazines like C&VG. That got me very comfortable with the keyboard at a young enough age.

Typing was also a required class in my first year of college, so I got the hang of touch typing then.

And these days I actually teach computers myself, and a large part of that is getting people comfortable with using the keyboard... I usually let Mavis take those classses while I hide in the corner and nurse a hangover.

all you fucckers and your early computers.
we had one in primary school (around 87/88) and we were shown it once.
i didn't see one again until the mid to late 90's.

i didn't know what the internet was until last week. i'm actually using someone else's account to post here. i just guessed the password.

i have another window open and it says i have 3 new messages at the top, but when i clicked on it, i was brought to some porn site. the internet is cool.

miju · 21-07-2006 11:14PM

been dicking with puters since about 8 on my commodore 64 (that still works by the way) could type about 40 wpm looking at the keyboard then joined the civil service (for my sins LOL ) and within about a year could type 85 wpm touch typing (AND i got a cert to prove it) sad or wot

**mental note** play flimbos quest on the 64 LOL

Donald-Duck · 21-07-2006 11:34PM

I learnt to type and touch type by just using a computer since I was about 6 or 7.Ive never used any typing programs or gone to any effort "to learn" how to type,its just from using the computer.I'd never even dream of going to any lessons for typing as they can hardly teach you anything?Using a computer regularly will teach you just as well.And I don't mean typing pointless things in word pad,using a computer to even use things like MSN or playing games will teach you it.

Terry · 21-07-2006 11:35PM

Donald-Duck wrote:

I learnt to type and touch type by just using a computer since I was about 6 or 7.Ive never used any typing programs or gone to any effort "to learn" how to type,its just from using the computer.I'd never even dream of going to any lessons for typing as they can hardly teach you anything?Using a computer regularly will teach you just as well.And I don't mean typing pointless things in word pad,using a computer to even use things like MSN or playing games will teach you it.

the space bar is the big one at the bottom.

YeAh! · 21-07-2006 11:36PM

Well, I began by looking at the keyboard as I pressed the keys, then i practised typing without looking at the keyboard (MSN messenger helped). I dont think i'm typing the correct way though, but hey...works for me!

Pigman II · 21-07-2006 11:37PM

I learnt on one of those old-style type-writers that someone had thrown out (one of those ones where there was round keys and space between each key, very 1950's i reckon). Great way to get top accuracy skills because the page goes in the bin with one character error

Donald-Duck · 21-07-2006 11:38PM

julep wrote:

the space bar is the big one at the bottom.

On my keybaord its small and gets broken a lot

.Also,I don't ever leave spaces after full stops etc because I don't even do that in writing.

Edit:Shift(or caps lock) are located on the left hand side,or right hand side of the "letter" keys.Sentences begin with a capital letter.You would think after looking when I typed that after every sentence I left no space that you would see that it wasn't a mistake.

ordoyouthinkItypelikethisbecauseIcantlocatemycapslockkey ordo i chooseto sometimes useitbutnot other times then type likethis?

Terry · 21-07-2006 11:45PM

Donald Duck wrote:

On my keybaord its small and gets broken a lot .Also,I don't ever leave spaces after full stops etc because I don't even do that in writing.

relax.i was just taking the piss.it wasn't meant as an insult.really.

abetarrush · 21-07-2006 11:50PM

I'm a keyboard

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