I Love Typing

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Seriously, it's great fun. It's like dancing. I like the way it sounds and the way the keyboard feels against my fingers. When you wiggle your hands words come out! What could be more satisfying?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 7 May 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

cuppage

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 7 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

There is that.

I much much MUCH prefer typing over handwriting. My hand cramps and tires quickly when I handwrite; typing is something I often feel like I can do near indefinitely. It is much more 'natural' for me, for what it is worth, and as I've said before to others, the most practical class I ever took in high school was the half-year typing class. I'm still grateful for it to this day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 May 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I much much MUCH prefer typing over handwriting. My hand cramps and tires quickly when I handwrite; typing is something I often feel like I can do near indefinitely.

what ned said.

― raw like sufjan (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 7 May 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know that i'd say i LOVE typing but i am very good at it because when i was in middle school and we got our first computer, it had no games, but did have Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and i mastered that shit.

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 7 May 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

When I was a wee tyke, I had fairly severe co-ordination difficulties in my fingers. I couldn't catch a ball or tie my shoelaces. The physiotherapipst recommended I type. Nowadays, I only use six fingers, not eight, but I can do it quickly and well. And voila, I can catch a ball and tie my laces. So, TYPING SAVED MY HANDS. Hurrah!

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

why don't people who love typing start their own board? etc. etc.

(KIDDING)

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

ken, why you wanna banish typers? jeez!!!!!!

;)

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

you have not typed until you type on an ibm model m

― TAO (daggerlee), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

i also enjoy typing

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

with all my fingers

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, when I went to high school, typing class consisted of manual typewriters - not those atomic powered gatling gun types that came later. It was impossible to get a letter to print 2x by leaving your finger on a key too long. As Ned said, learning to type is very practical. The one thing that buggered me was trying to operate my dad's linotype machine and its non qwerty keyboard. Never did get the hang of that thing.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

i also had typing class on old fashioned (none of those display screens) type writers in middle school! remember white out tape? hehehehe. i passed out of typing class in high school, though, cause i was SO AWESOME!!!!

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

White out, beige out, yellow out depending on the color of the paper...

I actually got kicked out of typing class. It was the day we were to learn how to do a spread heading. Somewhere in the room an off color remark was made (it wasn't me - I swear!) and Mrs. Hagstrom, quite certain that it had been me, was a little less than lady-like in escorting me to the door.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

i took typing in highschool too. on electric typewriters. i dont remember whether they had little display screens or not. i'm inclined to say they didn't. i remember a lot of noise in the room though. i wonder if typing/keyboarding is even a class anymore or if kids just learn it on their computers at home or in school just as part of having computers in their homes/classrooms anyway. it seems logical.

i love my laptop keyboard. soft, quiet.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

I like typing on nice soft keyboards and agree that its a less strenuous activity that writing with a pen. I still prefer to take notes with pen and paper and any pieces of work i write generally come together on the keyboard they always begin in a notebook. I also think i prefer writing with a nice comfortable pen to typing on comfortable keyboard.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

my parents didn't give a shit when i quit taking math in 11th grade (on the totally reasonable and true grounds that i was never ever going to need calculus for anything in my life), but they insisted i take typing. and damned if they weren't otm. even working in a newspaper office i know some people who can't touch type, and it makes a hell of a difference.

xpost: yeah, when i'm interviewing people i still use pen and paper. not sure why, partly just the convenience. i've never liked taking real-time notes on a keyboard. i suppose that's just habit like anything else.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

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― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

typing is pretty satisfying. i am not very good at actually writing now and kind of dislike it :(!

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Does anyone have any recommendations of particular (qwerty) keyboards for typing more quickly/comfortably? Are those crazy ones with the keyboard split in 2 an advantage? Is this really worth $300?

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm

― toby, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

My wife uses the Goldtouch and says that it fixed pains in her hand. You can change it around to all kinds of orientations, from standard to crazeeeee.

― Suggest Bank (libcrypt), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

I love typing too! I used to hate it in school, but once I had to go off on my own and actually use what I'd learned, it turned out I wasn't too bad at it. Love keyboard action, with a good pop-py keyboard. Still kinda nostalgic for typewriters too.

Actually I've been thinking about my high school typing class lately, and Mr Green, our eccentric typing teacher.

He set all of our typing exercises to music. These are the 3 songs I remember; and they are now forever linked with CLACK CLACK CLACK SPACE CLACK CLACK CLACK SPACE CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK DING CARRIAGE RETURN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7kbQyseI1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7xZKXwyR0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnz-qwt8hE4

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 December 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://www.norbauer.co/pages/the-seneca

― trm (tombotomod), Friday, 11 April 2025 16:02 (six months ago)

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