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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I learned to type on a manual typewriter, I'm pretty sure Royal, in seventh grade. I've been a touch typist ever since.
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.
I didn't take typing in high school because it wasn't included in my program. The 'college entrance' track didn't include any skills classes, only things like language and arts. Why they didn't think we would have to type in college is still a mystery to me.
Typing didn't happen until I had my own computer around 1980. Then I used a software program - Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!