Happiest day of my life! At last I could type as fast as I could think, and never had to make spelling errors. I finally took a typing course in my twenties but I was never very good and actually sent my early manuscripts out to be typed, thus cutting considerably into my profits! Then computers were invented.
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I was given a portable typewriter for my 17 th birthday and cursed that the ideas flowed more quickly than my fingers moved. RHYS BOWEN: The typewriter was my enemy! I never learned typing at my highly academic girls school. But it was worth it and now I use it easily. They gave you a little booklet with all these exercises to do. Never will be as fast as Hallie, though, I’ve seen her type and it’s like a wildfire! Now I have a special ergonomic keyboard so I had to relearn where the keys are. I am so sorry that I got rid of that little machine now!īy the time I got to graduate school, I was a pretty good typist.
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In college, where I majored in French literature, I had a little manual typewriter with all the French accents on it to write my thesis. LUCY BURDETTE: I’m pretty sure I learned in high school, though there was the secretarial track and the academic track, and I definitely was not secretary material. And I wind up typing everything twice, essentially, to fix all the mistakes. Now, usually I look at the keys, but I am still so impatient that my brain goes faster than the keys can work, so my work is fraught with typos. If I just go with it, and Zen it, I'm a whiz. So, weirdly, now I am a really fast typist, and can touch type amazingly well- as long as I am not trying to. I never learned to touch type, like we were supposed to, because I was too impatient, and realized I could just memorize the paragraph and then look at the keys and type it, and that was faster. And I am pretty sure there were no electric typewriters. HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN: I took typing in high school-the keyboards DID have letters. My laptops have for many years been Lenovo Thinkpads-which used to be made by IBM and have keypads that are famous for duplicating the same touch as the IBM Selectric. Hallie, I didn't learn to type on blank keys, but my secretarial school used IBM Selectrics (yes, that's how long ago it was) in their classes, and I was permanently bonded to the IBM keyboard. (Do people even use the term "touch typing" anymore?) So where do people learn all of those skills, because there are certainly still a lot of jobs that require them? For this I am forever grateful!! (Can you imagine writing and editing a manuscript in longhand?)īut I suspect that "secretarial schools" have fallen by the wayside. Then my parents sent me to secretarial school so that, regardless of future education, I'd have the skills to support myself. I managed to finagle my mom into typing papers for me all the way through high school and my first year of college.
"Touch type" anyone? How did you learn? And do the men in your family do it?ĭEBORAH CROMBIE: My parents had their own business and my mom did the typing and the bookkeeping, but I do remember my dad typing his own letters sometimes. Anyone else remember learning on a typewriter with blank keys?ĭo schools teach touch-typing any more, or do kids just arrive in the world with their umbilicus attached to a keyboard? Does anyone give 'thumbing' classes, because I could use one instead of stabbing my index finger at my cell phone's virtual keyboard.
My summer school typing class was packed. HALLIE EPHRON: I'm of the generation that took typing (and stenography, heaven help me) in high school because with that in my resume, I'd never be unemployed.
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