knows how 2 type; i learned in college

I learned in High School.

Typing the formal way really improves speed.

I learned formally in middle school, but I don't really employ the technique much. I suppose in my own way I type "fast" and accurately, which works for me.

It's ironic, I joined this site right after I got my first computer (I resisted the urge to join the information age for a long time....) & I learned to type by consistently posting comments here on Prince.org (this was the very first site I ever joined).
Now I've become a pretty good typist, and it's all from just coming on here & making fun of you guys.

self taught!!!!!

i guess that explains all my typos

imago said:

I learned in High School.

Typing the formal way really improves speed.

so does missing out several letters in the words u type

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I learned in high school, too. I was in college prep, but I took the typing class to learn so I could type my own term papers in college. One could earn extra cash typing term papers. Sure came in handy. because it helped me when I was looking for employment. If you typed fast and acuurately, you could demand top dollar.

in high school

thanks for posting everybody

Typing was an elective when I was in high school, but my mother insisted that my sisters and I take at least a semester. My parents were insistent that we were all going to college - and knew that meant we'd be typing papers. (On a typewriter - nobody had a computer back then.)

Learning to type served me well because I went into fields where you really need to know how to use a keyboard - journalism, PR, copywriting. In fact, I was typing on a manual typewriter as late as 1991, in a radio station newsroom.

I did Mavis Beacon teaches typing for 8 years of private school. I type superfast from memory. Though these days I usually have my laptop on my belly so I type a lot slower.

imago said:

I learned in High School.

Typing the formal way really improves speed.

How do you cope with different keyboards , for example in Germany or Thailand? Or do you always use your own computer ?

I´m self taught and can type pretty fast. American and Turkish keyboards really slow me down though. I´m used to German keyboards.

I dumb type but dumb type very quickly now.

JustErin said:

I dumb type but dumb type very quickly now.

I do both, I have a key board condom on my laptop which can make it difficult to type the conventional way.

I took Typing I and II in high school and Typing I, II, III, and IV in business college. When I graduated in the mid 1980s, I typed 40 words a minute and never typed another stroke while I worked in a convenience store for nine years until 1998 when I got my present job which is clerical. I now type about 60 or 65 words a minute. It just depends on the type of day I'm having.

What I find hilarious though, is that I was the only male in typing class and now that home computers and the internet are a big thing with most of the world these days, I see males all the time pecking their words out on the internet. I love to get in a fight with someone and watch how long it takes them to type their response out. Serves them right for thinking all those years ago that typing is just for women.

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Genesia said:

Typing was an elective when I was in high school, but my mother insisted that my sisters and I take at least a semester. My parents were insistent that we were all going to college - and knew that meant we'd be typing papers. (On a typewriter - nobody had a computer back then.)

Learning to type served me well because I went into fields where you really need to know how to use a keyboard - journalism, PR, copywriting. In fact, I was typing on a manual typewriter as late as 1991, in a radio station newsroom.

I still, to this very day, type on a typewriter at work to type contracts. They are the three-copy carbonless type contracts that require an original signature for the office and then we give the client the back copy which has the signatures on it. I get so tired of people asking us to email them a contract. I mean, how the hell would we have a legal contract if we didn't have an original signature on it?

When I first started my present job in 1998, I was scared of the computer because the feel of the keyboard is much different than the typewriter. I was used to pressing down hard on the keys and I didn't like the computer because if my finger just barely grazed the key, the letter was typed. I typed my boss's memos on the typewriter for a total of ONE day. By the time she got through proofreading it and discovering that she left something out, I would have to retype the entire memo just to insert one little sentence she originally left out. I must have typed the same memo completely over five times before I got my ass on that computer and got over that fear REAL quick.

Typing - for sure. I learned in high school. I have always had to type in one capacity or another (typewriter or computer keyboard).

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Learned to type in senior high.

I learned between 5th and 6th grade..mostly using Mavis Beacon at home. By the time I got to 6th grade, I was the fastest typer in my class. I've been typing around 70wpm since I was nearly 12 years old. In high school, I would charge folks to type up their reports and papers for them. Made quite a hefty sum too.

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9th grade--on Ye Olde Electric Typewriter.

In High School, then worked as a secretary for many years before I started dancing and moved different careers. Now just at home.

I passed my typewriting levels 1, 2 & 3 in college.

I'm not great at it by any means, but I sure am glad they made me take it in high school. When I watch some of the operations managers here spend two minutes hunting and pecking to put together a two line e-mail, it's all I can do not to yell 'do you think this could go a little faster!'

NDRU said:

I never learned the "correct" way to type. But I've worked sitting at a computer for 16 years now, so I think I do alright.

I don't have to look at the keys unless I'm thinking about it and then I have to look.