<div dir="auto">Patrick,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Greg Lemon</div><div dir="auto">TR250</div><div dir="auto">Greg Lemon<br></div><div dir="auto">TR250</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:56 PM Patrick Baize <<a href="mailto:pbaize@satx.rr.com">pbaize@satx.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>Patrick</p>
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<div>On 1/31/2020 6:27 AM, DAVID MASSEY
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<div> <font size="3">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?</font><br>
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<div style="clear:both"><font size="4">Dave </font><br>
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To: 'TeriAnn J. Wakeman' <a href="mailto:tjwakeman@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><tjwakeman@gmail.com></a>; triumphs
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br clear="none">
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If you were "Vo-Tech" typing was an option, but "Health" was
still mandatory. <br clear="none">
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Same teacher taught both classes. One of the most bitter
and angry people I have ever met. <br clear="none">
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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.<br clear="none">
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Typing was one of the most valuable skills I ever learned.
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My kids all had typing classes in public schools in 1st and
2nd grade post 2010. <br clear="none">
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Time and technology change everything. <br clear="none">
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I wish I could learn to type on a phone and manage the
"autocorrect", that would be something.<br clear="none">
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From: Triumphs <<a shape="rect" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer">triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net</a>>
On Behalf Of TeriAnn J. Wakeman<br clear="none">
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:38 PM<br clear="none">
To: <a shape="rect" rel="noopener
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Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired<br clear="none">
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On 1/30/20 6:23 PM, Bud Rolofson wrote:<br clear="none">
> Exactly, I took typing in eighth grade because there
lots of girls in <br clear="none">
> that class and I was a horny 13 yo. But my 50 yo
typing muscle memory <br clear="none">
> will always space twice after a period. Can’t help
it.<br clear="none">
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> Busted.<br clear="none">
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> Bud<br clear="none">
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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.<br clear="none">
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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.<br clear="none">
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TeriAnn<br clear="none">
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