> >>>wow, well done! I don't think i could physically or mentally stand the
> >>>challenge now. Could do with learning to type again, I've gone from
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> JT
Oh yeah. I think in the UK, in the times when my sister and my wife
learned it they had plastic caps which went over the keys, so you
basically couldn't cheat... but then again they were 'real' manual
typewriters then. I learned to type rather like I write, very scrappy
and thudding away with two or three fingers but very quickly. Sadly
although the speed is still there the accuracy is not and I find I hit
the wrong keys more often, specially when using punctuation, with ;
instead of ' being the most common. Luckily spell check sorts that
out.

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Grumpy AuContraire - 27 Jan 2007 01:01 GMT
The "key" to success with mastering touch typing is to learn the key
positions without looking. Looking at the keys severely slows down the
process. I like most people in the 1950's learned on manual machines.
That room really shook when everyone was typing...
JT
>>>>>wow, well done! I don't think i could physically or mentally stand the
>>>>>challenge now. Could do with learning to type again, I've gone from
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> instead of ' being the most common. Luckily spell check sorts that
> out.
Paul Heslop - 27 Jan 2007 02:26 GMT
> The "key" to success with mastering touch typing is to learn the key
> positions without looking. Looking at the keys severely slows down the
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> > instead of ' being the most common. Luckily spell check sorts that
> > out.
Ah, mine was a 70s hammer it out fast and furious with two fingers but
no great skill at the process of recall. I have a reasonable idea by
now where things are but bad motor skills and etc cause me to hit the
wrong keys. I was unsure for a while if it may be a keyboard size
thing, after all some things just keep getting smaller.

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MartinS - 27 Jan 2007 05:06 GMT
> The "key" to success with mastering touch typing is to learn the key
> positions without looking. Looking at the keys severely slows down the
> process. I like most people in the 1950's learned on manual machines.
> That room really shook when everyone was typing...
Nearly as bad as a roomful of chattering keypunch machines.

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