typing

[gary]

How many people here can type. I am taking a class. How long did it take you guys to learn :D

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[kevjob]

mud box anyone?

[LGB]

I can type with 2 fingers. :D

[Tool Guy - Kg]

I'll see you that Mud Box, Kevin......and up you 20....

Gary, force yourself to never look at the keys and you'll learn a lot faster. :)

[Davy]

Goed ides, I'll stip lookihg at thr keya fron mow om.

Man, that didn't work. :laugh2:

[davem]

I took a typing class in high school and learned to touch type then. It was worth it for sure.
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[Bugman]

What DaveM said. Highschool typing was probably one of the most valuable classes I ever took. Too many years ago to even think about now, but it stuck with me.

Hang in there Gary and try not to watch the fingers do the searching. Once you get it down it's pretty easy. Just make sure you keep all 10 fingers firmly attached.

[muskymike]

Yeah I had typing in high school too but I don't use the right fingers for the keys and I hafta look to see the keys sometimes.

[cx]

Yep, my momma forced me to take typing in high school. And forced is not too strong a word. :crap:

And like Clyde, I count it among the smartest moves I ever made in school. :D

Then I learnt to type faster when I had to go to radioman school in the Coast Guard so's to qualify as an Aviation Electronics Technician. Of course, by fast I mean something in the 50wpm range (if there weren't no numbers), not fast as in a really fast typist. I recall my dear mother could type 120+wpm on a manual typewriter (yes, children, there were typewriters before they had wars to plug in) with no trouble a-tall.

And I've been grateful all my days that I suffered through "asdf;lkj asdf;lkj" and "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back" for hours and hours. :)

Oh, and the typewriters in my high school classrooms had no letters on the keys at all. Big picher of a keyboard with alla letters and numbers and such hanging onna wall in the front of the room. Could peek at the keys if you wanted, but wouldn't do you ary bit of good.. It worked. :)

[NVC]

I never could type, but somehow I know how now. . . brown cow.

I think the Internet made me do it.

They have fairly cheap typing software out there that would make it easy/fun, might check it out.

I had one for DOS when I was a kid, and it was kinda like Asteroids . . . letters would come spinning at ya and you had to hit the right key or die and it came with a cover, paper, thingie so you couldn't see the keys. It had other exercises, but the damn letters killing me is what stands out . . . and after 6 years of therapy, I'm not afraid of capital letters anymore. :D

Mark

[jdm]

Typing was the only high school class that I ever got a "D" in. And to make things worse, my Mom had to come talk to the teacher.

I can type now, but working in software really forces you to learn. Two fingers really doesn't cut it all day long.

And the "delete" key sure is easier that than making correction on a typewriter.

[Eugenius]

there's a scripture in the Bible with reference to Christian giving that says something like, "Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing," or in other words, don't flaunt your generosity. That seems to carry over into my attemp..t to type. I've tried to learn to type for over 20 years. On a good day, I might type 20 words per minute...my left hand doesn't seem to know what my right hand is doing
the original layout of the keyboard was the Dvorak, a logical system ,,,
able typists would type so fast that the keys on their manual Royals and Underwoods would congregate and jam up. Thus the qwerty, or present keyboard configuration, was devised to slow people down on manual typewriters. With the advent of word processors and now the 'computer', why haven't the powers that be shifted back to the Dvorak keyboard?
Personally, I type about as fast I write and about as fast as I think...

[NVC]

Geez Jeff, 2 fingers? MS-windows requires 3 fingers (salute.)So you can even find the curly braces, parenthesis, and the symbols above the numbers w/o lookin' ? :eek:

Speaken das C, o'das +'n? .asm, VB, Jav . . .fortran,C-bol (I ain't callin' ya old)
I never spoke sharp (at least that's what the Mrs. tells me) ;)
I shoulda known, dang whacked since o' humor :D
Just code/lang curious, but I distress . . .errr digress . . .come to think of it, I can't type. :scratch:

I hope this is as confusing to everyone, as it was to me, ;)

Mark

[doitright]

I hope it was high school that I learned to type (getting a little foggy)! :D

I never learned the number board though. Don't tell me not too look at that, or I might not have a income! :eek:

[John Corley]

Back when I was a helper I was still under the illusion that I was not going to do tile for ever and I spent $11,000 and went to school for systems engineering.

Well, I'm not a network administrator but I can type. Not bad for 11 large and over half my GI Bill :deal:

[NVC]

John, but think of how handy that boolean algebra is in tilesetting :D. . . oh wait . . . I can AND, OR, NOT, put a piece here . . . that's logic,right? but I've never tiled a gate. . . hmmm I'll have to think about that one, or have an aneurysm (sp?) tryin' ;)

I just like making things 'purty' with tile. :)

Mark

[John Corley]

Binary code what ??

We do live in the matrix and Bill Gates is a really nice guy :rofl:

[NVC]

Binary? Oh one of them birds they put in coal mines to warn miners of noxious gases? ;)

I'd #include more, but then I'd have to think, and learn how to type :D

Mark

[Davestone]

Who in the Hell said ANY of us could type! :yeah: I'm a hunt and peck,fix as i go,post, take a look,pull it down and redo it type of typer,typical of the type of typer you'll find here,and i don't know what any of those big words mean.

[Dave Taylor]

So I hunt & peck too Davestone..... lots-o-huntin and not much peckin.

Fastest two fingers inna' west I yam..... cept mebee fer BBCAMP n CX n Pirate n Mike2 n Tonto n who-so-ever else beats me to a post.

Oh well.... it's hell to gits old.

Wunner' how Opie makes out.... mebee uses his nose, or toes. :)

[opiethetileman]

hell Id pay 24 large to learn to type. At least i can read a ruler and make marks and cut staright thats all that counts. Well i know its no excuse but my stubb runs and pecks at stuff and thats why I get all jumbled up on here. I guess I should just hack the rest of it off and then start over. well go ahead I suck at spellling but its funny when i write checks its perfect why is that???

[NVC]

Opie, :rofl:

That's all that counts bruddah man, the checks. :D

Mark

[EEEO]

I wonder if they have special keyboards for the "uniquely abled" like people with missing fingers? :D :lol1:

[bbcamp]

My best friends are the "backspace" and "delete" keys.

[JTG]

I'm anothe who is glad that I took typing in high school.
When I was drafted in "68" I was sent to radio operator school and figured out quick that they were teaching us to operate a radio on our back with an antena that would stick up above the jungle and say "we are over here" They said learn morse code and you can go to radio teletype operator school. Thanks to time in the Boy Scouts that was not hard.
I spent my two years in the Army behind a desk.
:)
JTG

[opiethetileman]

My special keyboard key is called a colt 45 that pretty much fixes the whole damn word in one shot. :tup2:

[Gary K]

I took typing in high school. I hated it. That was right before computors took off so no one really had them. Now I am gratefull for it. I guess you never know.

Gary

[Humbled]

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