Are you like me……. One of thise people who never really learned how tio type properyl?
one day, evrtyhnig will be voice-activated and there’ll be o need to hunt and peck thei correct letter or go back over the text F7-ing all the erors.
THis ihs a post o celebrate mispelling
heres Wierd al – simnging about grammer -which is noit what tghis post is about –
#No pednats heer plese!
jus sillyt speling
Never learned to type properly. I’m still mostly a one-handed-pecker (Missus!) on a keyboard. Been doing it for 20-odd years now though and I’ve become fairly accurate.
Must be hard for someone with a bit of Dyslexia to acheive an acceptable standard.
My most important lesson was to always check what’s there on the screen before pressing send.
Thanks, Mike – good to see a typo hidden in the midst. I hope tehere’s at least one in every contribution to this thread.
Re your last sentence – it’s a lesson I keep having to relearn. Particularly with WhatsApp, where there’s no Auntie Edith function.
Yeah, I do most of it with one finger. Incredibly slow.
But pays off in the end I imagine.
Aye, gets the job done all the same.
Mi faverit is on the RSD22 websight:
“Excluive vinyl version of the Sept 2021 released newly recorded tribute compilation to mar the 10th aniversary of the passing of the Scottish singer Jackie Leven.”
It’s wot ‘ee wood of wonted.
S.P. Thay spelt vinly rong.
Very inclusive language there from Al.
The wonderful inclusive US of A where you can’t say “damn”, but “retard” and “spastic” are acceptable terms of abuse.
What a bunch of Joeys…. ooop!
I never learned to type properly, although typing has been part of my job since I qualified, nearly 40 years ago. The the constant repetition seems to have allowed me to build up a head off speed with reasonable accuracy…
I’m naturally right-handed but, as a teeanger, taught myself to type left-handed on a portable typewriter. I broke my right wrist, falling off my bike, and had a plaster cast meaning I couldn’t move the fingers of my right hand.
So I kind of do two-finger typing with my left hand and one-finger plus thumb with my right.
I did once try to have proper lessons, but it was too late to unlearn my awful technique. 37 years on, I now have joint trouble.
I’ve never learned to type properly, but i type all day as part of my work.
I seem to use my index and pinky fingers on each hand and can rattle away. The odd thing is apart from qwertyuiop I couldn’t tell you where any other letters are placed on a keyboard. Yet I can blast away nineteen to the dozen, not looking down at my hands at all, and the words I want appear on the screen in front of me.
On a computer, two fingers and a thumb for the space bar is all I need. On an iPad (which I’m using to write this while I lay in bed), I awkwardly use the thumb of my right hand and the index finger of my left, as I hold the device in front of me.
I was thinking the other day about texting on the old Nokia-style phones, a proficiency that bloomed for about five years before becoming redundant almost overnight.
Computer is generally two fingers and a thumb on each hand (oo, get me and my fancy typist skills). Can’t do that looking at the screen and typing thing, so when I do lookup there a a fair few edits and adjustments needed.
I tend to use the keyboard as if it is a typewriter, and if I get into a groove it sounds like a Burundi Drumming Competition.
Tablet is strictly a one finger prod, much the same with the phone (I have finally graduated from using the “pen” or more correctly plastic stick grandly called a stylus)
Yes I’m a two-fingered tyro too – works OK for me.
Many years ago I took on the task of trying to teach my mother-in-law how to use a computer – it was going to be just basic stuff like email and looking up something on Google. It became apparent as soon as we started that it wasn’t going to happen. She’d spend 5 minutes looking for the letters in her name! She’d never learned to type and it was too late now (she was in her 80’s),
60 wpm touch typist. Can freak people out at work typing perfectly accurately while looking them in the eye. Blame my dad who made me learn to touchtype on a manual typewriter the summer before going to uni.
Have transitioned on a phone to the two-thumb technique which is really the only way to go.
My wife and I did a typing course decades ago, and I must admit it’s served me well working in offices for nearly 40 years. On a good day I whizz around the keyboard (not that whizz, keep it clean), most days I still make a healthy amount of msitakes and have to look where my fingers are.
The ones that impress me are those who have mastered the number pad.
I use the number pad for typing in credit card numbers and suchlike. I’m quietly impressed with this skill because I’m actually left-handed.
Same here!
‘…one day, evrtyhnig will be voice-activated…’ You think that’ll make any difference? Crimes against the language will still be rife.
I’m a 4-fingered tyypist and can rack up some impressive speeds when the wind’s in the right direction. Of late though I’ve noticed that I’ve started to type anagrams of the word I actually want to type. Wordle’s fault, probably.
I’ve always given my writing the two finger treatment.
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*waits*
…so has everyone else.
Is that what you were after?
Well I’m typing this buy speech recognition and it seems to be working quite well at the moment in fact better night spectre or maybe not
I wanted to learn typing at school. This was 1979. I was 13 and I knew computers were coming. I thought it would be useful.
Was gently told that the lessons were for girls.
“Unless you’re planning to be a *secretary* Mr Celebration…this isn’t the class for you.”
(that’s not what was said, but this was very much the vibe).
Adults are idiots.
My Dad was a telegraphist. In the days of telegrams, he was the person you dictated your message to over the phone which he typed up and sent to the destination. When he started, he was taught to touch type 60 WPM and he learnt Morse Code. The fax killed his job.