Using typewriters at school

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Jazzy1

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I took typing in High School. When we finally learned the keyboard, our teacher covered our hands with a piece of paper, and we had to type, "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy black dog" as many times as we could in 3 minutes. Then she'd check to see how many mistakes we made.
 

''the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy black dog"

There was no Black dog.... It was simply The quick brown Fox jumped over the lazy dog''


I was in the what they called the Commerical class which meant my majority of lessons were Typing, & Business economics... as well as maths and English...

I had about 12 period a week...

this looked almost exactly like our typing pool...
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As far as I am aware, the sentence should be,
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
and not
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"

The difference is that in the first sentence there is the letter 's' whereas in the incorrect sentence there is no letter 's' at all.


Regarding learning to touch type. I didn't learn to type till I went to university in my mid 20s, and found that I couldn't even read my own handwriting. So I bought myself a small travel typewriter and learned on that, till a friend of mine let me borrow her IBM golfball electric typewriter. She then told me about the sentence above and showed me where the home keys were, so that I could practice. This I did religiously till I could literally write my sentences by looking at the paper rather than at the keyboard.

Because of this I was able to type quite quickly after a while, and although I now make more mistakes than I used to thanks to old age, I still look at the screen rather than the keyboard when typing.
 

yes you're correct..that's what I get for correcting someone lol.... it's jumps and not jumped... using every letter of the alphabet

I think we can all be forgiven, given that it's been many decades since were at school
 
My touch-typing class was on a manual typewriter, with a shield over the keys to prevent looking.

I became very skillful, typing 65 words per minute.

When I started typing on an electric typewriter, my speed jumped, and ai was clocked at 100 wpm with a 1% error rate.
 
Typewriters in our classes had no letters on the keys. There was a chart on the wall.

Do you know that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down fast typists?

Early typewriters were balky and if you typed too fast, you'd jam the type levers ( remember how annoying that was?)

The QWERTY keyboard scattered the most common letters all over the board, causing typists to slow down.

At some time, another keyboard was developed with the most common letters right in the middle. It was a flop, however, as no one wanted to re-learn how to type.

The coming of the electric typewriter and computers eliminated the need to slow typists down.
 
My junior year in high school I needed one more class to fill my schedule. I took two half-year classes: Typing and Home & Family Living. In typing, I peaked at a blistering 30 WPM and have never been able to touch type. :ROFLMAO:

Home & Family Living, OTOH, is the type of course that should be required of every high school student . . . household finances, general health, nutrition, marriage, child rearing, employment. I think this world would be a better place now if every young person had been exposed to this wisdom.

(BTW, I predict that within 20 years "keyboards" will be a thing of the past.) ;)
 
I took typing in high school with an old style typewriter. I did not do well in that class but it did prove to do me well with jobs that required typing. I bought myself a typewriter to practice at home. However, electric typewriters and then computers were easier.
 
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