Square Wheels Posted January 30, 2016 Share #1 Posted January 30, 2016 I use a few fingers and my thumb on the space bar, that's about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #2 Posted January 30, 2016 4 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: I use a few fingers and my thumb on the space bar, that's about it. I use the time tested Hunt and Peck typing system. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 30, 2016 Share #3 Posted January 30, 2016 I get but but not a touch typist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #4 Posted January 30, 2016 I took typing in high school on a Royal manual typewriter. This was in 1968. I bought a Royal manual typewriter the same year and used it for decades. My cursive writing was so bad that I basically forgot how to do it. I either printed everything or typed it. In 1969 we got to use an electric typewriter in high school. High tech! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #5 Posted January 30, 2016 29 minutes ago, Kzoo said: I get but but not a touch typist. It isn't the speed, it is the accuracy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 30, 2016 Author Share #6 Posted January 30, 2016 4 minutes ago, Wilbur said: It isn't the speed, it is the accuracy. Poor bastard has neither. If his reading comprehension is just as bad he'll never know we're giving him crap. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #7 Posted January 30, 2016 1 hour ago, Square Wheels said: Poor bastard has neither. If his reading comprehension is just as bad he'll never know we're giving him crap. You are getting better at this humour thing, SW! I have sort of a hybrid (bastardized is another word I 'spose) style which is a blend of touch and Hunt and Peck, but the main downfall is I do way better when looking, so if drivel is coming out I dont; usually see it until later. But I am getting better with that via mucho practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted January 30, 2016 Share #8 Posted January 30, 2016 I can type on a keyboard. Never been able to use just my thumbs for iPad or iPhone. I use my thumb and index finger. Oddly enough, I do that right handed and I'm a lefty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Come Lately Name Posted January 30, 2016 Share #9 Posted January 30, 2016 No, but it's kind of a moot point when 90% of the time I'm on a touch screen.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #10 Posted January 30, 2016 Yes I touch type with speed. It was one of the courses (2 actualy) that I insisted on in high school even though that was for the non college going girls only. Electronics shop and drafting were also things I had to fight for. High School was f'd back then. Everything was predetermined by how you scored on certain tests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun Posted January 30, 2016 Share #11 Posted January 30, 2016 Yep. I took typing in High School and do ok with it. I probably don't type half as fast as my wife, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #12 Posted January 30, 2016 2 hours ago, maddmaxx said: Yes I touch type with speed. It was one of the courses (2 actualy) that I insisted on in high school even though that was for the non college going girls only. Electronics shop and drafting were also things I had to fight for. High School was f'd back then. Everything was predetermined by how you scored on certain tests. You must have gone to my high school. They acted like they were going to give you a choice of what you wanted to take and when you filled out what courses you wanted they scratched them out and wrote in what you were going to take. I had to take all college prep courses. I did manage to get a year of typing on a manual Underwood typewriter. It was my favorite class in high school. The thing that amazed me was the fact that they taught us to type in one week and used the rest of the year to improve speed and accuracy. We learned how to type a business letter and stuff like that by default. That was the stuff we had to transcribe. We were never tested on it. The only class I really wanted to take was Art and they said my schedule was too full I couldn't take it. I told them it wasn't my schedule it was yours. I said scratch them all I don't care just give me an art class. They refused, I had to take biology lab instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #13 Posted January 30, 2016 Yep. That was the old days. "You vill do vatt yor are tolt." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #14 Posted January 30, 2016 3 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: Yep. That was the old days. "You vill do vatt yor are tolt." I guess I showed them, I refused to go to college and instead worked like a dog my whole life. You can't make me go to college. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #15 Posted January 30, 2016 8 minutes ago, Longjohn said: I guess I showed them, I refused to go to college and instead worked like a dog my whole life. You can't make me go to college. Bah! You are hanging it up and retiring already! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #16 Posted January 30, 2016 I have that same shirt. I was already old when I got my first degree. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 30, 2016 Share #17 Posted January 30, 2016 2 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: I have that same shirt. I was already old when I got my first degree. My first degree was a burn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted January 31, 2016 Share #18 Posted January 31, 2016 11 hours ago, JerrySTL said: I took typing in high school on a Royal manual typewriter. This was in 1968. I bought a Royal manual typewriter the same year and used it for decades. My cursive writing was so bad that I basically forgot how to do it. I either printed everything or typed it. In 1969 we got to use an electric typewriter in high school. High tech! I took it in 1966. We had mostly royal manual typewriters but there were 3 electric Didn't get to use the electrics often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted January 31, 2016 Share #19 Posted January 31, 2016 Two of my fingers and one of my thumbs are pretty good at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Beanz Posted January 31, 2016 Share #20 Posted January 31, 2016 At one time I used to type properly. Our high school had a 2 year requirement in typing. Since I have started posting on forums, I have gotten pretty sloppy cause I don't have a priest looking over my shoulder ready to whack my knuckles if I use a wrong finger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted January 31, 2016 Share #21 Posted January 31, 2016 I type ok. Sometimes hunt and peck, other times by touch. Took one semester of typing in high school, IBM Selectric with the rotating ball. Those were cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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