I learned to type on a typewrite in Intro to Keyboarding in high school. I found it difficult to translate it to my computer at home at first because the keys were much more sensitive.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
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sj - Jan 22, 2015 3:46:45 pm PST #16175 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
beekaytee - Jan 22, 2015 4:59:01 pm PST #16176 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
I have freakishly small hands and Mrs. Frings' typing class in junior high nearly did me in. I swear, the keys on that (non-electric) typewriter were purposely spaced so far apart, you needed jackhammer mitts to make a decent impression.
Still, I love that I learned to touch type back then...now that 'keyboarding' is such a big part of daily life.
Lilty Cash - Jan 22, 2015 5:44:30 pm PST #16177 of 30002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I have learned to type fast, but I definitely type "wrong". My Tiny Dink Hands (TM) don't help.
ETA: Hubs coined the phrase Tiny Dink Hands. It's rude, but it's stuck.
askye - Jan 22, 2015 5:49:15 pm PST #16178 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I took typing several times in school -- all on computers. At the vocational school I went to for a legal secretary certificate (which I have done nothing with) the instructor was very particular about typing properly.
Any time she came around I had to change the way I typed, which slowed me down. She was coninviced if everyone typed "correctly" they'd be faster. The thing that seemed to bother her the most is my habit of using the left shift key for all shifting. I don't know how I got started doing that but I don't ever use the right shift key.
Lilty Cash - Jan 22, 2015 5:51:59 pm PST #16179 of 30002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
askye, I use the left shift key too. It's so close to CTRL! So handy!
Well, shit. I just looked down and realized there was a right CTRL too. Huh.
Calli - Jan 22, 2015 6:06:56 pm PST #16180 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I took a typing class in 9th grade. It was on a manual typewriter. 30+ years later I still hammer the keys on any given keyboard.
Ginger - Jan 22, 2015 6:34:18 pm PST #16181 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Taking typing was the best decision I made in high school. We learned on Royal Standards, the most durable typewriter made, and I spent four years writing on Royal Standards at my college newspaper and part of my first year as a reporter. I got a portable manual Smith Corona in high school and wrote all my papers on it, as well as typing papers for money. It's still around here somewhere. I also have my aunt's Royal portable from the '30s.
Connie Neil - Jan 22, 2015 7:07:06 pm PST #16182 of 30002
brillig
Nearly every job I've had could be linked to the secretarial typing course I took in High School, which was more intensive than the basic course most everybody else took. We had IBM Selectrics. The guy behind me hit the power button and the carriage flew off the typewriter.
NoiseDesign - Jan 22, 2015 10:54:29 pm PST #16183 of 30002
Our wings are not tired
I learned to type on a manual typewriter, I'm pretty sure Royal, in seventh grade. I've been a touch typist ever since.
SailAweigh - Jan 23, 2015 1:57:39 am PST #16184 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
My mom had an old manual at home, plus I took a typing class (also on a manual) my freshman year of high school. I can not imagine not using the right shift key. How do you make capitals with your left hand while using the left shift key? I'd be keysmashing all over the place.