My Pathetic Typing

[KIR]

Two years before my son entered the army I told him, if he could learn to type 20wpm, I would get him some snacks, sodas and some VHS rentals. He accepted the challenge and learned to type 20wpm. When he joined the army, after a few months, he called me up and said, "I hate you"! I asked him why and he said because you got me to learn to type and when his sergeant found out he was made to work in the office half days instead of being with his buddies doing things that he really liked out in the field. It all worked out for the best as being personable, he got to know all the officers and got invited to functions that other soldiers did not get to go to. This resulted in him being remembered when it came time for promotions, which he deserved anyway. To this day, he quickly can type, especially on messaging on his phone, looking up things at a record pace. As he worked EOD, blowing/disarming things, he currently is working teaching others how to set up bombs, for which he gets paid handsomely. He still does office work for which his typing comes in very handy.

 

[arfmel]

My high school typing teacher was a very nice young woman (maybe 28 or so) who took mercy on me and let me use one of the typewriters that had letters on the keys, because I transferred in after the class had started, when we moved to East Texas. God bless her, I wish I could remember her name.

 

[Danjet500]

God bless her, I wish I could remember her name.

You should have typed it down on a piece of paper.

 

[mr surveyor]

I didn't have any typing classes in school, so I self taught out of need. After typing many thousands of legal descriptions and survey reports over the last 45+ years, I still use only 4 fingers on the keyboard, and two eyes guiding them. Ordinarily the blazing speed was only 25 to 30 words per minute on papers that really mattered ... like those that were going to lawyers, title companies or the county court house deed records.

But, not to brag, a few years ago I could type 80 words per minute ... in secret code .... that only I could read.


jd

 

[el caminero]

I didn't have any typing classes in school, so I self taught out of need. After typing many thousands of legal descriptions and survey reports over the last 45+ years, I still use only 4 fingers on the keyboard, and two eyes guiding them. Ordinarily the blazing speed was only 25 to 30 words per minute on papers that really mattered ... like those that were going to lawyers, title companies or the county court house deed records.

But, not to brag, a few years ago I could type 80 words per minute ... in secret code .... that only I could read.


jd

I have been asked, on this forum, for my cipher. I never had one, either.

 

[Jeepnik]

Two years before my son entered the army I told him, if he could learn to type 20wpm, I would get him some snacks, sodas and some VHS rentals. He accepted the challenge and learned to type 20wpm. When he joined the army, after a few months, he called me up and said, "I hate you"! I asked him why and he said because you got me to learn to type and when his sergeant found out he was made to work in the office half days instead of being with his buddies doing things that he really liked out in the field. It all worked out for the best as being personable, he got to know all the officers and got invited to functions that other soldiers did not get to go to. This resulted in him being remembered when it came time for promotions, which he deserved anyway. To this day, he quickly can type, especially on messaging on his phone, looking up things at a record pace. As he worked EOD, blowing/disarming things, he currently is working teaching others how to set up bombs, for which he gets paid handsomely. He still does office work for which his typing comes in very handy.

He teaches how to "set up" bombs? I didn't think there was much call for bomb makers.

 

[Jack Ryan]

I took typing class. One semester. No clue what I could type by the end of it but I DID learn to use the home keys. Thats all it took

Decades later computers came in to play and using them taught me more about typing that the class ever could have.

 

[Armybrat]

As a student in an all boys Catholic high school in the early 1960s I took Glee Club as an elective instead of typing.
That’s because we would get to participate jointly for choir programs and school plays with the girls from the all female Catholic academy.
Of course my voice sounded like Andy Devine’s, but the choir teacher told me to just “sing quietly “.