Tim wrote:
> f you take lessons, though. The keyboard layout becomes second nature,
> quite quickly. You can do that with a program, you don't need to go to
> a school. While it may seem overkill, for many, but if you do a lot of
> email, or programming, or any other regular typing. It's worth it. You
> also avoid getting painfully cramped fingers from awkward typing habits.
Yes, I took typing in grades 10 and 11. Had a beautiful blond with radiant
blue eyes as my deskmate (we had desks with 2 people at each for typing) for
one of the years. I took one look at her the first day of class and within a
few minutes she was sitting beside me for the whole year. Oh, yes, typing.
That's how it went in class, too.
I got up to 30 words per minute, after subtracting 5 or was it to words per
minute for each mistake. I think my real speed was about 65 words per minute.
I was retested about 5 years ago, using my present 4-5 finger system, and I
type at about 35 words per minute, with great accuracy.
Considering that I type at a computer, often have a pen in my right hand at
the same time as I type, have my left hand on the mouse while I'm typing,
and, as it is with computers, often need to type unusual commands with alt-
shift or alt-FX or lots of diacritical marks in bask scripts or generally
whatnot, I do not find stenographic typing to be at all useful for computing.
Typewriters did not have a mouse or graphical interface. They did not need to
select menu options. They did not need to type things like:
{ echo $( ps -fu me | egrep 'libflashplayer\.so' | egrep
'npviewer.bin' | egrep -om 1 -E '\<[0-9]+\>' | head -1 ) ; }
on a regular basis.
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