When I was in high school in the early 1980s, I took both Typing I and Typing II in high school and I was the only male in typing class both years. Then I went to business college and took Typing I, II, III, and IV and there were only two other males besides me in the entire business college. When I graduated I typed around 42 words a minute and since I've worked in an office job since 1998 (I was stuck in a convenience store job up until then) I type around 67 words a minute.

Males just didn't take typing back in those days (at least in my area they didn't) and I find it funny when I'm in a forum these days and get to arguing with a male around my age and it takes them forever to respond back because I'm picturing them pecking the keys trying to get the words on the screen. Whoever knew that internet would become the rage years later and that we males that were in typing class in those days would get the last laugh.

Anyway, did you take typing class in high school. If not, how did you learn to type or can you type these days?

Oh, and by the way, the reason I keep having to edit a lot of my posts is because I learned to type on the old typewriters where you had to press down hard on the keys. With computers, I find small errors all the time where my finger may have simply grazed across another key and then it shows up on the screen. Typing has come a long way since those "banging on the keys" days.
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I'm bumping your thread because it's going to take a long time for these men to reply.

I don't if this applies or not. but, when i was in elementary school. all the kids in my grade level took typing classes. To this i kinda have to give thanks for that. For i fell that i type real well. We took tests, i forgot How we did. But i remember i used to be really good at it. but i suck at "texting"!
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Cinnie said:

I'm on the high end of my 30s, so I'm assuming that's old enough

I took typing for a semester in highschool. I'd say half the class was male.

Guess with 43 i'm also called an older men

And no i never had a typing class in my life.
But with 20+ years of computerexperience i can find the keys with 2 fingers in my nose.
I never counted the words per minute, but when i'm on a roll it can be pretty fast.

LeCram said:

I've seen him do it too

I've never had any formal training / classes, but I reckon I could do about 20-30 words per minute.

In my last job I was always the one to type stuff as I was the quickest. One time, a colleague, upon gazing at my dexterous keyboard wizardry, enquired "you a poof?"

mcmeekle said:

I wish I would have. I still can't type.

I took Typing I & II in high school...and I did really well in both classes...not because I could type well, but because I found a way to cheat and ace all my end of the week typing tests...on fridays, we had test in which we had to type two completely different paragraphs for time...I'd decide before hand which one I planned on passing then flip back to it (or stay on the current one as the case may have been) when the second timed session started...we were only graded on the better of the two...so, basically I had twice as much time to type one of my paragraphs than everyone else did...

cheaters sometimes win...

I took typing class in 1979 and I sucked at it. I got so frusrated one day that I bent the shit out of the carriage return bar. I bent it back into shape before the teacher could notice. I seem to have a mind that goes faster than my fingers.

I'm not a guy...but I'm answering anyway.

My sophomore year everyone was required to take driver's ed one semester and the semester opposite that we took "Keyboarding" so there were a few guys in my class. We were the first class in our high school to use computers instead of typewriters. We learned how to use Word and Excel.

As an art history major, I had to type quite a few papers through the years. I wouldn't say I'm super fast, probably 40-50 wpm.

Graycap23 said:

ahhh, that's why you're always summarizing "In a word...."

I graduated in 1987 and I took Typing I. It was the best thing I could have done, because it has helped me tremendously throughout the years in getting decent paying jobs. I'm pretty much stuck at 60 wpm, though.

I'm 42. All the boys in my junior high had to take typing and THANK GOD FOR THAT!

I'm 36 and, yes, I took typing in high school. I'm glad I did too. I mainly did it because their were some pretty girls taking that class...

I'm 24 and i also took typing in high school..

they taught typing when i was in the 2nd/3rd/4th grade.

what really got me typing fast was arguing in chatrooms when we first got the internet at home in 1999.

I took typing in middle school. I was in the 7th grade. We had
a mix of girls and boys. I didn't take typing in high school.
When i started going to college, i had forgotten everything from
middle school so i had to get an old female high school friend to
type my English papers. When i stopped going to school for a couple years
while working i made it a point to take typing. In this class i
was the only guy. It didn't phase me at all and i actually enjoyed
being surrounded by the ladies. I'm glad i took that class because i have
retained everything from taking that class 20 years ago and can type
at least 45 wpm.

Im not male but when i was in High school in the 80's typing was a required class and everyone including males HAD to take it...

Ace said:

I'm almost forty and we all took typing as well. It's the single most useful class I've ever taken. Aside from being taught that debits are on the left & credits are on the right, I've never learned anything more practical.
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Who the you calling old, bitch .



Yes.

Are you guys talking about typing, like on typewriters?

Or is that what they called keyboarding?


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newpower99 said:

Men in their 40s

My junior high offered keyboarding classes but I never took any.

We had at least one computer in each classroom when I was in elementary school (hello, oregon trail) and a computer lab in the library and somputer labs in my jr high and high school.

But I think I owned a typewriter in high school that I'd type my papers on...

I remember my first year of college one of my professors wanted everyone to send her an email rather than call her for questions and that seemed like such a foreign, annoying thing at the time. This was 1993-94.

As for typing, I never learned the "real" way to do it, but I've been sitting in front of a computer for at least 40 hours a week for about 13 years. I do alright.

Imago said:

men in their 40s really know how to pound that keyboard damn good !

newpower99 said:

Men in their 40s now what time it is!

I took a semester of typing in high school to fulfill one of my elective requirements. I remember it was after lunch and in constant food comas and the old school typewriter was high enough for me to put my head down and take a nap. I think I barely passed with a C or something but I did manage to learn the basics: learning where the fingers go on the keyboard etc. I guess it stuck because by the time I started using computers my hands automatically knew what to do.

Oh and I say about half my class was male.