[TR] needs repaired

[Greg Lemon]

Patrick,

I have you beat, have been writing as part of my job and hobbies for over
30 years.  I use four fingers.  If I don't think about it I realize
sometimes I am doing it from muscle memory and not looking, if I start to
think about it the magic goes away and I have to look.  Still make way too
many mistakes.  Preparing papers for college with a typewriter was pretty
painful, I tell the kids these stories, but they just roll their eyes.

I also go one finger at a time on my phone, can't do the two fingered thing
like the kids.  Interestingly, I just noticed, I type with my right hand on
my phone, even though I am very left dominent with most everything else I
do.

Greg Lemon
TR250
Greg Lemon
TR250

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:56 PM Patrick Baize <pbaize at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> I never took typing in school. Later I tried to use "Mavis Beaves teaches
> typing", didn't work. I have been writing software for over 30 years, I use
> 3 fingers, 1 on left hand, 2 on the right.
>
> Patrick
>
>
> On 1/31/2020 6:27 AM, DAVID MASSEY wrote:
>
> I never took a typing class, I am self taught.  I remember staying up all
> night typing a report for class in highschool.  When I started working
> there was no need for an engineer to type.  Enter the desk-top computer.
> Now I spend most of my time staring at a screen typing on a keyboard.
> Who'd a thunk?
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpaynepbr <jpaynepbr at cox.net> <jpaynepbr at cox.net>
> To: 'TeriAnn J. Wakeman' <tjwakeman at gmail.com> <tjwakeman at gmail.com>;
> triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net> <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 9:07 pm
> Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
>
> In 1990, when I graduated HS, if you were going to graduate and be
> "college bound", you had to take a typing class.  It was Sr. year and it
> was "Health" one semester, "Typing" the next or vice versa.
>
> If you were "Vo-Tech" typing was an option, but "Health" was still
> mandatory.
>
> Same teacher taught both classes.  One of the most bitter and angry people
> I have ever met.
>
> The though of  "Health" class taught by an angry, frigid, humorless 60
> year old woman still makes me wonder.  I guess if you had to manage the
> subject matter with a bunch of teenagers, many of whom were headed nowhere,
> after a few years, you would end up like that too.
>
> Typing was one of the most valuable skills I ever learned.
>
> My kids all had typing classes in public schools in 1st and 2nd grade post
> 2010.
>
> Time and technology change everything.
>
> I wish I could learn to type on a phone and manage the "autocorrect", that
> would be something.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Triumphs <triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of TeriAnn J.
> Wakeman
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:38 PM
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
>
> On 1/30/20 6:23 PM, Bud Rolofson wrote:
> > Exactly, I took typing in eighth grade because there lots of girls in
> > that class and I was a horny 13 yo.  But my 50 yo typing muscle memory
> > will always space twice after a period. Can’t help it.
> >
> > Busted.
> >
> > Bud
>
> I didn't take typing in high school because I didn't want to be
> pigeonholed as a secretary. In early years I went in to interview for a
> technical position with a degree in electronics & almost always was asked
> what my typing speed was. When I mentioned about a page ever 2 hours or so,
> I got interviewed for the job I was applying for. I knew a woman with a
> Stanford masters in physics who in the mid 60s worked as a tech group
> secretary.
>
> During college when I needed to submit typed papers, I traded typing for
> either a homemade apple pie or a ready to bake homemade lasagna. I single
> space between sentences only on emails. That is because my mailer produces
> strange characters when I double space a sentence. The books I have
> authored are all double spaced between sentences and my reviewers have
> forced me to use oxford comas. They are not used in technical papers.
>
> TeriAnn
>
>
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