Comments on: How Did You Learn To Type?

By: marc

marc — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:56:54 +0000

I was lucky enough to have a friend who had parents that were computer teachers at the high school. So when i was somewhere around ten years old i was taking the advanced computer corses for the high school kids during the summer for fun. Then actually took that same class again when i was actually in high school about ten years later. Computers change, but still had the same teacher.

By: Jofell Gallardo

Jofell Gallardo — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:38:51 +0000

The Philipines hasn’t caught up yet with computers back in the 90’s, so yep, the typewriter. Started punching those buttons when I was in 5th grade (back in journalism training).

By: Emory

Emory — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:01:41 +0000

Mavis Beacon for about a month, then self taught with aim :-)

By: Matt K.

Matt K. — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:39:42 +0000

Typing was one of those things that was a really slow development for me. We had a computer, but at a young age I just used it for games and stuff. But during the summer, my mom would require me to do the “Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor 5″ for at least 30 minutes a day. And for 3 summers in a row. I hated it. So basically I got up to the point where I could type fast while looking at the keys. Then we got a new computer and internet to boot, and my typing skill shot up because of heightened computer use. Now I don’t need to look look at keys.

In short, I learned to type because I hate Mavis Beacon.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:15:59 +0000

MSN!!! and from work having to type what is being dictated to me!

By: CzarCruise

CzarCruise — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:15:43 +0000

I had a computer class in my elementary school where we learned to type and run programs(like paint and such). I progressed my typing on my own, by typing papers and writing in forums and such, I don’t understand why people are so amazed by the fact that I can type and not be looking at the keys.

By: maique

maique — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:22:49 +0000

i started typing on a sinclair spectrum´s rubber keys.
graduated to an amazing ibm pc jr keyboard, back in the days when keys were made of some sort of metal, they clicked nicely (still miss them) but were rather noisy.

after that i had to go to the military and ended up on comms. we had typing classes, where we should learn to use all our fingers. by that time i was already doing that, minus the little finger, and i could never get the hang of it.

nowadays i prefer my powerbook g4 keys, and really hate ‘regular’ keyboards…
and i’m still typing away with the same fingers.

By: Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:18:15 +0000

I started playing a MUD — text based, online D&D game, like World of Warcraft without pretty graphics — when I was about 12 or 13 (1993/1994) and you could perform better in the game if you were a fast and accurate typist. Within a year or two I could type 60wpm.

By: PVL

PVL — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:54:06 +0000

Just from hours and hours on the satan box as a kid. But seriously though, this new Apple keyboard is great.

By: tripdragon

tripdragon — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:52:34 +0000

Never did, I even switched to dvorak to since I dont have qurty ingrained into my head, (boy it’s hard to spell quarty with out it being on the top row now :P )

ARrrg! still got it wrong..

On that I still hope to learn to type without looking at the keyboard