Man, I'm so glad I learned how to touch-type back in school (an extracurricular). It takes time to get really fast, but it is so worth it.
Tommy added:
Funny you'd mention this. When I was in school I took a typing class which I thought I'd never use. I've eaten those words over and over and am very thankful that I took it.
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Funny you'd mention this. When I was in school I took a typing class which I thought I'd never use. I've eaten those words over and over and am very thankful that I took it.
I took it in high school. It was part of a required business course. I was a terrible typist in those days but over the course of high school I gradually became pretty fast. I will win no world records but averaging 85 wpm is pretty good I think. I tried a typing program a couple of years ago to see if I could get up around 100, but despite daily practise and sticking with it for several months I didn't improve.
Well, I think 85 is faster than me anyhow.
And if one is writing, not transcribing, you only need to write as fast as you can make it up.
That's true. I couldn't be one of those close-captioning guys if it was for something live but for most other things probably around 60 is enough. I tried the Dvorak system a few years ago but I wasn't any faster with it and it just made using anyone else computer or a public computer harder to use as I wasn't able to keep both systems in my head.
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