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DeltaRed

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this site is a'hoot'.but it is hard and time ci consumimg to type like achicken....peck,peck.peck i con only respond to questions requiring short answers.I gue
ss i need too go totyping school......where is 'Q'at?
 
I took typing in High School forty-mumble years ago, mostly because the teacher was HOT!

It's been one of the most useful things I've learned.
 
I wouldnt worry about it too much. For the most part everyone can make out what anyone types, but there are a few on here that go to bashing because someone cant type.
 
My Dad is retired now, but has been a pastor in the past. He uses the 'seek and ye shall find' method of typing! Greg
 
Like I said fairly good but still hit the wrong key and fail to double check what I wrote.
 
Took a typing class in HS on old IBM Selectric typewriters. Incentive to take it at the time was mostly laziness/easy grade/maybe the girls/don't really remember now, but turns out to be one of the few things I actually use regularly.

For those that don't type, I recommend looking for a "typing tutor" type game or web site. I have seen people make amazing strides in speed in just an hour or two with a little structured lesson/practice.

HTH,

Kirk
 
"It's been one of the most useful things I've learned."

Typing or the teacher? ;-)

I think there was a rule at my school that all the teachers had to pass an ugly test. Most of em passed with flying colors ........... :-(
 
They dumped computers on us at work, after many years of resistance. (can't teach an old dog. . .)

We used the operator/oiler system. One guy typing and one guy watching the screen to warn him when he'd accidentally hit the "Caps Lock" button. .

I've typed for ten minutes before I found out all the little letters were big and the big letters little.

And one keyboard had something wrong with the letter "B". You had to hit it kinda hard, and then it would make about ten "B's" instead of just the one I wanted. I finally figgered out that I could just push the extras along in front of me until I needed one.

Paul
 

At my age dose it really matter:
Ytsay’syoudonthavetobeagoodspellerorabookautherbecausenoteveryoneis.
JR.FRYE
 
At my age dose it really matter:
Ytsay'syoudonthavetobeagoodspellerorabookautherbecausenoteveryoneis.Have a great day
JR.FRYE
 
WHAT ? Me take typing ? I'll never need that ! I am going to be a farmer. circa 1954.
 
Yes, I never did learn to type and I suffer for it. But after 10 years online and thousands of posts on forums like this I do find myself using more and more of my fingers. I'm probably up to 30 words a minute :(
 
I took typing in HS but dropped out after a few weeks.
Took typing in college but dropped out after a few weeks.
Took it again in college and you guessed it, dropped out after just a few weeks.
I guess I got the basics though. When I bought my first computer 15 years ago I was still past the hunt and peck stage.
Right now though I'm back to one hand.
Yuck
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I also took typing in High School in 1960. It came in handy when I got put in the maint office in the Navy. When the computors came into being most of my typing abilities came back. Back then it wasen't so easy to correct your mistake with the manual machines. Between wood shop, metal shop and the typing class the things I learned in schol has helped me a lot through my life. Stan
 
Of course you are correct Mr. Frye.

I should have said I recommend them for people who get frustrated by the lack of speed and decide to just quit and leave the cyber universe.

Kirk
 
Spell checkers handy- but they Kant catch everything. Give the screen the middle finger salute with left hand-place finger on 'D' key. Right hand finger salute- place finger on 'K' key. Your left little finger can hit the shift, tab and caps lock buttons, the right little finger can hit the enter and shift keys. Right little finger can also hit the delete and backspace keys-often needed. This for 'Dell' keyboards and most others except laptops sometimes move things around. Have fun with basics, function and number keys are mainly look for them as needed before tapping. The old Word Perfect used keyboard and function keys more than Microsoft Mouse. RN.
 
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I took typing in high school. At our 55th class reunion a couple years ago I had a very good visit with my typing teacher. Told her I was using my skills she taught me. I didn't figure she knew I was alive but she remembered me. Even said kids weren't all that bad back then. Hmmmm.
 
Up until a few years ago, all I ever used was a redneck word processor.

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Here's a keyboard with the location of the letter "<big>[b:654c4848f0]Q[/b:654c4848f0]</big>".

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Since I don't read very fast, please remember to type slowly.

 
I'm up to 20 letters a minute.
Proud of myself too, self taught.
First typewriter was invented and produced 20 mile from me. too bad we rednecks couldn't figure how to change that new fangled machines mechanical parts to align letters in a realistic manor so I wouldn't have to search for em, maybe if the alphabet was taught differently it would be easier to type lets see .
W,E,R,T,Y,U,I,-- NO THAT WONT WORK EITHER ,
GRRrrrr !!
 
My mother was a legal secretary, and she INSISTED each of us kids take typing- glad she did. Dad's primary recollection of typing is that he used to ride the typing teacher around town on his bike, but never learned to type.

I made the same ultimatum to my kids- but they all taught themselves while in Jr. High- They had a software program that seemed to work pretty fast for them. Suggest you look at that route.
 
Only part of my teacher that was hot was just "under the collar"- NO fooling around. "All right, class, hands in home position, feet flat on the floor, eyes on copy, ready, TYPE!" I can hear it as if it was yesterday. Pity the poor schmuck who "jumped the gun." She had some condition where she blinked her eyes a lot, and when she got mad, she looked like a toad in a hailstorm.

Fortunately, her husband and my dad were carpenters who worked together, so she cut me a little more slack than others. She was actually pretty nice, when not in class.
 
The keyboard was actually laid out like it is to make it less intuitive, and without all the popular letters bunched together in the middle, so people would type slower. The faster you typed with the early machines, the more chance of the key arms hitting each other or hanging up. So the QWERTY layout helped slow them down.
 
Still have one of the early Underwood manual typewriters that looks like this one at home.

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It is basically bookshelf art.

Let's see if I remember the typing drills.

aaa space, sss space, ddd space, fff space, jjj space, kkk space, lll space, ;;; space.

Practice Practice Practice.

Good to hear from you.
 
I use the "hunt and peck" system which requires looking at the keyboard. Been doin' it for years and I'm fairly fast at it. Years ago a fella once told me 90% of the secretaries at that time were hunt-n-peckers.
 
It's not the typing on Y-T that bugs me it's the spelling that looks like some people never got out of second grade...when it takes 15min. to figure out what they are talking about they need to go take a night class or two at a Jr. collage...take care ...Kent
 

I can not afford it, the Goverment takes 1/2 of my retiremnt check and Medicare takes the rest,
so the pop cans I pick up I use for my other stuff.Thats our Goverment.
JR.FRYE
 
I can send and receive morse code faster than I can type! And that ain't saying nothin. . .

Paul
 
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