Can you touch type?

[no_tv*10]

My computer just got a nasty virus so I had to borrow the teens macbook. She has changed all the letters on the keyboard to new spots! Trying to stop her siblings hacking it I am told.  It has taken me way to long to reply to questions and I'm too scared to list anything new. Am I the only loser that can't touch type????

[imastawka]

HA!  Not fallin' for that one. Nuh Uh.  Too old and cranky.

[freshwater-2]

I learned to touch type at school with the keys covered.....on a manual Remington.

To estimate your speed you had to count the letters plus the spaces and divide by 5.

I could type faster than I did shorthand.   I still do shorthand for Minutes of meetings, etc. and touch type....Just as well;  many of the keys on my keyboard are worn out.  

[*elizabeths-mum*]

I did the other test from you, joono. 2 fingers 36 wpm with 9 mistakes.  This was on the PC, I think the ipad has given me bad habits. I never did learn to type though. These forums were my secretarial training.

I bought a couple of portable typewiters at an oppie about a year ago and there were things I had forgotten like having to use a fullstop and an apostrophe to make an exclamation mark. 

a little better in the other.

Words per minute (WPM)	37
Keystrokes	191 (187 | 4)
Correct words	33
Wrong words	1
You are better than 59.1% of all users (position 56231 of 137468 - last 24 hours)

[lurker17260]

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@freshwaterbeach wrote:

I learned to touch type at school with the keys covered.....on a manual Remington.

To estimate your speed you had to count the letters plus the spaces and divide by 5.

I could type faster than I did shorthand.   I still do shorthand for Minutes of meetings, etc. and touch type....Just as well;  many of the keys on my keyboard are worn out.  

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Ah yes, that's where the 5 came in.  I knew it was there somewhere LOL  

Now, what did we have to take off for errors, can anyone remember?

I can also remember, being at my first job when I was about 17, getting our first electric typewriter.  Didn't that just take the cake

[**tay**]

I can touch type, my hubby hates it! I'll be talking to him, not looking at the keyboard, and replying to something on Facebook, lol! I hated learning it though, it was so darned repetitive!

[freshwater-2]

Back in the 'olden days' female students learned shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, business principles in the second and third year of high school......qualified and ready for your first job.

How times have changed.

By the time my daughter was at school all this had changed.

Her ambition was to own her own business, so I gave her the option of leaving school at the end of third year and enrol in a full time  one year business course.....which she agreed to..

By the time her school friends had left school she had been working for a year in a job that she loved, and earning good money.

Within five years she achieved her ambition of owning and running her own business, and bought her first property.

She did all this herself.  She is something else, is my beautiful and kind natured daughter.

[toon_town_nutter]

I did three years of typing at school and learned with paper over my hands and the screen turned off.

[freshwater-2]

The huge advantage of starting your working life with business skills is being able to work in ANY industry of your choosing.....and go on from there with a career or further studies.

[icyfroth]

Yes kind of but still have to look down on the numerical keyboard

[freshwater-2]

99% of touch typist do, Icy.

I am only a wee thing and I have to take my fingers off the guide keys to reach the numbers......well, that's my excuse anyway.