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Old 03-04-2008, 11:27 PM   #16
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(seriously, does anyone on here actually have to "hunt" for a key? I may look at them, but only to confrims I've not slipped. i know where they all are.)
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:28 PM   #17
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I took two full years of typing in HS. I did so because my handwriting was too slow and too hard to read for me to get the ideas out of my head and onto paper before I forgot them.

They call it "keyboarding" now.
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:35 PM   #18
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Is keyboarding torture?
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:45 PM   #19
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lol @ Bruce - I still type with 5 or 6 fingers. Gotta be the worst evahhhhh. I look at the keys and still spell stuff wrong.
Well, I've been looking to take a class or something - typing may be just the thing!
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Old 03-05-2008, 12:53 AM   #20
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i have no idea what the hell i do when i type. its not right, whatever it is. it's like a hovering-snake strike-jujitsu type of....typing. i use mostly the first two fingers of each hand except for the extreme outside of the keyboard. I guess i use my ring fingers for those, but never my pinkies. i type in spurts. 8 letters all in a burst...pause.....then nine...etc...


ok, so i guess i do have some idea of how i type.....but its still all fucked up.
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Old 03-05-2008, 08:39 AM   #21
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Do they even teach typing anymore??
I think they call it "keyboarding" around here.
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Old 03-05-2008, 11:54 AM   #22
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I suck at typing. I wasn't able to take it in high school for scheduling reasons. I figured it didn't matter, because even though we were one of the first families in my town to have a computer, I never realized how widespread they would become.

Anyway, my technique is all screwed up. I use about 4-6 fingers when I type, and have to look at the keyboard to find the keys. Whne I try to type fast, I am very inaccurate.
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Old 03-05-2008, 01:19 PM   #23
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It doesn't matter how fast you type in my world.....Lots of clever things have come from manual typewriters with no correction key, when accuracy and content are more important...Just a personal view.

That's probably also a poor excuse for my lack of talent in this area after all the instruction in it I have received.


The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog...

I'm old...I like to get it right the first time...That really slows me down.

I'm imagining the person at the library next to you as say, a dead Jack Kerouac or someone, pecking away, and being loud and deliberate....banging away with two index fingers....I actually have respect for that.....

I think quality of content trumps method? I mean, what if the person next to you is writing the next masterpiece and there you are.....Judging their typing methods....
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Old 03-05-2008, 01:37 PM   #24
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I don't know about typing, but my filing techniques are unstoppable.

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Old 03-05-2008, 03:28 PM   #25
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I think quality of content trumps method? I mean, what if the person next to you is writing the next masterpiece and there you are.....Judging their typing methods....
True (but I'd think authors who can't type have someone do it for them). Sorry, but keyboarding is pretty much a necessity in communication skills--which is the most important thing companies look for in hiring new employees.
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Old 03-05-2008, 05:39 PM   #26
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True (but I'd think authors who can't type have someone do it for them).
Not usually

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Sorry, but keyboarding is pretty much a necessity in communication skills--which is the most important thing companies look for in hiring new employees.

Content is still more important in "communication skills". your 200wpm means nothing if you don't know how to express yourself. Unless all you want to be is a secretary typing somone else's words.
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Old 03-05-2008, 07:58 PM   #27
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(but I'd think authors who can't type have someone do it for them).
Aaah nope.Think again. Authors who can and can't type don't usually have people typing for them. Second of all, I have never known an author to be that lazy.

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Sorry, but keyboarding is pretty much a necessity in communication skills--which is the most important thing companies look for in hiring new employees.
Keyboarding quickly is very important to a company if you are the receptionist, hon. Certainly not if you are editing or in data management.

No one sees how long it takes you to construct an e-mail. They are really big into the content of the e-mail. Please remember that....

People can communicate quickly and well about how inept they are....agreed there. That doesn't make them valuable.
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Old 03-05-2008, 09:35 PM   #28
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Yeah, my bad, I didn't mean to brush over content as unimportant. I just hope that typing becomes a standard quintessential skill soon, just like handwriting was (because in 20 years I predict paper won't be used frequently at all).
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Old 03-06-2008, 12:46 AM   #29
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Yeah right. Since Boeing went to paperless systems of production, they are buying 10 times as much paper as they used to.
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Old 03-07-2008, 02:04 PM   #30
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http://www.funfreepages.com/games/abc_typing.php

Type the ABCs as fast as you can!
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