Do you actually type

[monarchsfan16]

I type the right way. I had a semester of keyboarding my sophomore year of high school, and that was without a doubt the best class I've ever taken. I'm not the fastest typer in the world, but I'm a lot faster than I used to be.
My mom hunts and pecks (when we can actually get her near a computer) and it drives me nuts. I think it bothers her too. Whenever I go home for a weekend, or break or whatever, she's got a pile of stuff for school (she's a teacher) that she wants me to type for her

 

[wilderness01]

I was a secretary so I type correctly.

 

[icebrat001]

If I had to hunt and peck, I would not be on a message board!

 

[buzzlady]

I type the correct way. Actually, I can't hunt and peck. My fingers know where the keysare. It would take me sooo much longer to have to think about where the keys were if I tried to hunt and peck.

 

[FroggyinArk]

i used to type correctly, and wasnt bad at it. then in 1993 i waas in a construction accident and badly burned on my right hand and arm. i have severe nerve damage to my right hand, and cannot feel the keys anymore, so i had to create my own system, i type thre entire key board with my left hand, using all the fingers and half of the board are even on the right keys..lol

 

[Keli]

I type correctly but I'm not terribly fast at it. And we called it 'typing' class when I had it in hs, lol.

My dd's hs made 'keyboarding' a required class for everyone but then they realized they didn't have the resources yet to get every student into the class before the graduated so they allowed other classes that had nothing to do with typing work in that required category instead. As a result my dd has never learned to type correctly (she couldn't ever get in the class) but she's much faster than I am, lol. She uses three or four fingers and just flies.

 

[raammartin]

I type the correct way. Don't you start with your hands on ASDF and JKL; ? Do they teach typing/keyboarding in highschool these days?

 

[Disney Doll]

I type pretty fast, but I do not type the correct way like I was taught in high school lo those many years ago.

It's a fast hunt and pack using the Disney Doll method of typing!!!!

 

[AdventurerKat]

I don't type correctly but I don't hunt and peck either. I don't use my "pinkies". I type about 70 wpm these days but when I was doing lots of litigation work I typed closer to 85 wpm.

 

[CPM]

I WISH I could type!! I envy people that can.
Is it hard to learn keyboarding after all these years?? Can anyone reccomend some kind of program?

I can peck & find fairly quickly, but I'm thinking that could be a disadvantage to learn the correct way.

 

[KarenAylwood]

Best thing my mom ever did was force me to take keyboarding in 8th grade (or maybe that was giving birth to me... eh. whatever).

And then thanks to the advent of IM when I was in high school, I'm an incredibly fast typer.

 

[Brianne]

I WISH I could type!! I envy people that can.
Is it hard to learn keyboarding after all these years?? Can anyone reccomend some kind of program?

There's a couple different computer programs now that are actually pretty good--if I had the one we own handy, I could tell you what it's called, but if you look in any kids' computer software section, they'd carry it (I bought the program from Best Buy).

Sounds like there's a number of us who went through typing class. I'm a 2.5 year typing class refugee. I miss the old style & the electric typewriters, but I don't miss correction tape!

DH never understood what the little ridges on the F & J keys were for until I explain it to him.

 

[debloco]

Yep, I took a typing class in high school. Back when they still called it "typing" I remember my teacher saying that typing was just "applied spelling".

 

[luckywife]

I type the right way and type pretty fast. I have no idea how many WPM I can do but DH is usually pretty impressed with my "lightning fast fingers"

 

[disneysteve]

I learned to type in jr. high and have typed quite well every since. In fact, in med school, I worked as a typist for our note service. Every lecture was transcribed, typed and distributed to everyone. Every student participated but many chose to hire someone else to do it for them. I was one of those "someone elses." Over the 2 years of classes, I typed a few thousand pages of lectures at a couple dollars per page, so you never know when those typing skills will come in handy.

 

[N.Bailey]

I better type the right way after two years in a business school.

Drives me nuts to watch my 7th grader "type." And he says they had a class at school.

The teacher at my kids' school goes around asking the boys that don't type so well, what are you going to do when you're chatting it up with (insert girl's name here) and she thinks you're talking to 100 other girls because you're taking to long to respond. My kids tell me that the teacher always adds, such and such is going to say, to heck with you buddy!!

I'm not sure if it works or not, but they all get a laugh out of it anyway.

 

[N.Bailey]

I WISH I could type!! I envy people that can.
Is it hard to learn keyboarding after all these years?? Can anyone reccomend some kind of program?

I can peck & find fairly quickly, but I'm thinking that could be a disadvantage to learn the correct way.

Get Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. There are many different versions of the program. If you buy one that's not the latest edition, you can pick it up practically for nothing. Just make sure it'll run on your computer.

 

[Snow_White]

I type correctly...my job involves tons of coding (programming), so if I didn't, it would take me so long to get anything done it would be ridiculous!!

 

[dbarker]

I type correctly. When I took typing, I learned on a manual typewriter. I got really good at returning that carriage. It's a lost art. (ha ha ha). And it was called "typewriting" or "typing" for short.

 

[calie_j]

The best thing my parents did was forbid us to "play" on a typewriter until we took a typing class which wasn't available until 9th grade. I followed the rules and can now type pretty fast without many mistakes and without looking at a keyboard. My sister snuck onto my older brother's typewriter before she could take a class and now she's a 2 finger typer looking at the keyboard. I think the school's are doing a disservice to the kids having them use computers and doing reports before requiring a keyboarding class; and not even offering anything serious as they get 9 weeks in grade 5 and 9 weeks in jr high.

Calie