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actually, i did very well in typing class in high school. about 80 wpm.
pharmacist for the last 25 years, so fast typing very important.

I was afraid to take the class because I can't spell well.
Not knowing all you do is read.

I got to select whatever classes I needed in high school....except one.
Pop "insisted" i take typing! 😡
Yeah, okay.
Within the second six weeks, I was burning 45wpm. The teacher thought she had a "phenom"! My second year of typing class, I passed with 45wpm. 😜
Two years in highschool and the rest of my working life was sitting behind a keyboard.
One job (15 years) required taking short dictations and then proof reading them back before releasing them. An error or typo "could" get you fired.

One weirdo thing.
Me and two friends went horseback riding just before school ended.
The horse I was riding caught me not paying attention and began bucking. I did a swan dive with a half twist and landed on the back of my head and left shoulder. It broke my left collarbone.
My Typing I final was a written exam! LOL!

Hunt and peck.

Ron

130 words per minute. I was a lot faster on an IBM selectric than I am on a computer keyboard.

The quick fox jumped over the lazy dog
The quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Reminds me - half the secretaries in Washington are hunt n peckers.

Nope....
But have made do when it counts.

Of course. Took typing in high school, back in the late 1970s. No looking was allowed. I got real fast, too. Came in handy when personal computing became common in the 1980s.

Not very good now. A friend and I took typing in high school because we knew it would be all girls except for us and we sat behind the 2 hottest girls in the class. I could type real fast on the old mechanical typewriters but made a lot of mistakes.

Yeah, the MacBook slows me way down, and increases my typos a lot. When I had the full sized desktop and keyboard, I could fly on it. Amazing speed and precision. But not with a MacBook. At first I thought it would just take time on it to get back up to speed and accuracy, but nope. I've been on the MacBook for like five or six years, and I'm as bad with it as I was the day I got it. Almost, anyway.

Same.

Wow, I had a semester of typing class in high school.

After sophomore year, you needed to do reports that were typed. And you were only allowed a few correction on your paper.

so I can type without looking at the keyboard.

Two fingers and I know where this key is ..........

That was the method they used when I was trying to get out of HS.

Like others said its one of the best things my mother forced me to do.

Didn't use it so much for years then all of a sudden if you couldn't type and didn't have computer skills you were in trouble. At least in my trade. My job put me in front of a lot of different peoples desk and it seemed any number of different keyboards and then it was using a laptop balanced on top of a machine or on the floor or on top of a trash can etc.

Still can't spell or write for chit. Spell check is my bud.

Used to could, but the iPad put and end to that nonsense. Worse, now I make more mistakes watching every fingerpoke than I ever did touch-typing.

Can't type without looking at the keys. I do whats known far and wide as secretary style typing. I'm a hunt and pecker typer, one might say.

You bet. My parents insisted I take a typing class in High School and it paid off immediately after I graduated. In college, I got a part time job typing motor carrier freight bills after classes which helped pay for my education.

Yep, had typing in high school, like riding a bicycle or jacking off, you don’t forget how!!

KAWI, is that you?

I miss that guy.

LOL. Yep. Ole KAWI was funny.

Oh hell yeah, my last job was an instructor at Community College.
My students were always in shock that I could type.

My fingers are on the wrong key strokes with the right hand,
never has bothered me