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EvilMel
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Man...I'm actually kinda embarrassed about how many posts I've made. I can guarantee to you that very few of them have been either useful or on topic.
Holy crap...it's been over 5 years since I joined! I just now noticed it when I was mulling over how in the world I made so many posts.
Man...I'm actually kinda embarrassed about how many posts I've made. I can guarantee to you that very few of them have been either useful or on topic.
Holy crap...it's been over 5 years since I joined! I just now noticed it when I was mulling over how in the world I made so many posts.
Five years and still under 500. I need to work on that.
imsqueak
Premium Member
The Navy taught me how to type. I almost flunked out of A school because I couldn't type 25 or 35 wpm. Then they explained that if I flunked out there would be a high chance I'd be a Boatsman's Mate and they are the guys hanging off the side of a ship on a rope and harness while underway using a needle gun chip away the old paint and then repainting it. The whole hull! I quickly changed from an ex-carpenter from a family of heavy equipment operators (cranes) to a "pencil pusher". I cant look at the keys when I type or I mess up.
Oh Dave, you've been hi-jacked (we're trying to get back to the good ol' days):uzi:
Oh Dave, you've been hi-jacked (we're trying to get back to the good ol' days):uzi:
Runner
Active member
I took a basic typing class in high-school for just a quarter. Then switched to a Basic programming class (on the old Apple IIe computers which had just come out) for the rest of the year. That quarter, along with my year of drafting class, was the most useful class I ever took in high school.
I did beef up my typing skills until later in college when, while writing an english report, I got tired of 2-finger poking and put my hands in the proper position I had learnt about 3 years before. Speed improved after that (up to about 50 wpm). Later on, I played an online game for a couple of years that was like a graphical chat room (and learned the use of IM at that time, too). Then after that, I started posting on boards like this. I haven't officially timed myself lately, but I think I am somewhere around 80 wpm if I am typing on Word (with autocorrect on) and not watching what I type. If I watch, I think about what I am doing and mess up. It is kind of like playing the guitar. If you have to think about the chord forms, you lag behind and mess up.
Are we totally off topic yet? Or should we start discussing belly-button lint?
I did beef up my typing skills until later in college when, while writing an english report, I got tired of 2-finger poking and put my hands in the proper position I had learnt about 3 years before. Speed improved after that (up to about 50 wpm). Later on, I played an online game for a couple of years that was like a graphical chat room (and learned the use of IM at that time, too). Then after that, I started posting on boards like this. I haven't officially timed myself lately, but I think I am somewhere around 80 wpm if I am typing on Word (with autocorrect on) and not watching what I type. If I watch, I think about what I am doing and mess up. It is kind of like playing the guitar. If you have to think about the chord forms, you lag behind and mess up.
Are we totally off topic yet? Or should we start discussing belly-button lint?
