P&T Lockout Lifestylez: Typing

You’re a regular Red Holzman!

My first attempt netted a score of 350 and I think of myself as a pretty good typor.

I’m 44 years old and I learned to type in sixth grade at I.S. 70 on 17th street between 8th and 9th avenues. We learned on these things called typewriters. We used to do drills, but I can’t really remember them. Anyway, I’ve always touch typed since then, and my speed has gone up and down. I can’t believe people hunt and peck. It’s insane.

I have a son who’s 5 and he’s just beginning to understand the concept of the keyboard, though he’s a whiz with the mouse. I search for ‘trains’ on youtube and he goes from there. Strangely, he usually ends up watching clips of grand theft auto involving trains crashing into cars and various characters. I predict he will learn to spell either ‘Train’ or ‘Grand Theft Auto’ within a month and then will probably enter red holzman territory shortly thereafter. Meanwhile I will try to get him to dribble a basketball and he will go right back to the keyboard, and I will be simultaneously proud and humiliated. Par for the course for a Knick fan.

How may words do I type a day?

Answer: Way more than if I had never joined P&T. Welp, that’s about all I have attention span for.

Thanks for the fun activity! It’s about 2.1% as fun as watching Smells hit a contested 20-footer!

546

First try. Now back to work!

I’m roughly 26. I was too stubborn to learn to type the right way in 4th? grade computer class. I just use my pointer and middle fingers and the right thumb for the space bar. I guess you could call it hunt and peck, but as long as long as my hands start in the right place, I don’t have to look down.

The most difficult keyboard to type on was in a German internet cafe.

482

Damn I didn’t think I was gonna get sonned this bad. 123/wpm? I’m 29 and Mavis taught me all I know. Mavis and trying to type out expletives in between deaths in the Q3/UT days.

but I farted at least twice and it threw me off

94 and 492 points. And I thought I typed faster than it takes for LeBron to travel. Where the hell did you learn to type that fast?

107 wpm/534 points. Made a couple booboos!

Only times the skill has come in handy was in college pounding out papers and later on impressing temp agency secretaries.

Everyone here needs to play Typing of the Dead.

I remember they would corral us and ship us off to the computer lab starting in 2nd-ish grade. We had to play this monotonous-ass game called “Typing Time,” and if we burned through it with sufficient precociousness, then the Oregon Trail was a reward.

If I’m not sittin’ gracefully on the home row with those bumps under my pointers, I’m lost as fuck. I tend to type a ton per day, between taking notes in class, pooping essays and churning out high-quality journalism. Also, googling for funny bear pictures takes typing too, I suppose.

types with three fingers. the index fingers on both hands and the middle finger of his right hand. it’s the strangest thing i’ve ever seen.

Visit the Typing Test and try!

I grew up in PA, and learned to type properly in seventh grade in Mrs. Gibbons’s typing class. She was a pleasant woman, but was by far the most hated teacher in my middle school because her curriculum consisted of putting a piece of paper over your hands and making you type for an hour and ten minutes.
I really, really hated typing, but in retrospect I’m extremely glad I took that class. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it was the most practical class I’ve ever taken in my life.

My dad types extraordinarily slow, and if he took a class that taught him how to properly type, he’d probably make more money with his job as a result. However, he’s real stubborn, so that’s not happening.

The best I did was 98 wpm, which is right around where I thought I’d be. Also: Oregon Trail, Math Blaster, Number Crunchers, etc.

When I learned to type on a manual typewriter, you couldn’t just mush the key, there was a technique – you had to tap. It was like learning how to hit a drum correctly. You had to get that satisfying ‘Whap’… so speed was only one aspect.

But I like the modern times because typing is smmoooooooove.

:(

I’m 17 and I went to a catholic school where they didn’t give a shit about how you typed, so maybe I’m messed up for life.

77 WPM.

Peace.

had to play that nonsense in class. so many minigames.
i vaguely remember a internet website called “typeracer” or something along those lines but haven’t played it in a long time and am not going to look it up now in case i end up having to typerace the nerdy asian girl on my floor freshman year who showed it to me.