Touch typing
Dec 6th 2011 | 5:42 pm
#16
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Re: Touch typing
I got 54 wpm, but lots of mistakes, mostly because I am crap at spelling even when copying the text.
Dec 7th 2011 | 12:22 am
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Re: Touch typing
Dec 7th 2011 | 3:39 am
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Re: Touch typing
If I remember correctly, we had to do 25 wpm in grade 10 to pass and 40 wpm in grade 11. I think I squeaked by but I was never %100 on the numbers in the top row. I can, however type 'Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.' with absolutely blinding speed and no mistakes. Too bad there's no call for that. The test in the link was hopeless on my phone - why is there a comma behind every word?
(61 wpm + 3 errors)
Dec 7th 2011 | 8:23 am
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Dec 7th 2011 | 3:04 pm
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Re: Touch typing
I should add, that while my typing may not be fantastic, I am pretty good , both fast and accurate with data entry using the numerical keypad.
I spent 4 years doing a PhD and inputting research data (mostly numbers - the weight of eggs believe it or not!)... that kind of stays with you.
I spent 4 years doing a PhD and inputting research data (mostly numbers - the weight of eggs believe it or not!)... that kind of stays with you.
Dec 7th 2011 | 3:24 pm
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Re: Touch typing
31 wpm with 2 mistakes, hmm slow and careless, can only get better I guess 
Dec 7th 2011 | 3:28 pm
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Re: Touch typing
73wpm (1 mistake).
I too learned shorthand (pitmans) and typing as a young lass - courtesy of Clarke's College - and somewhere have the certificates to prove it. The course was 'business studies' and you had to write orders, letters of complaint & etc., to practice your skills. My hand writing, of course, was appalling and homework was often thrown back at me in disgust!
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" (and) "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party" were our practice sentences, repeatedly typed to the William Tell Overture on ancient Underwood typewriters (complete with bell when your carriage hit the end). When a mistake was made woe betide if you rubbed it out on the carbon copy (literally a carbon copy) and went through the paper or smudged it.
Those were the days, sigh................ and I am so glad they are gone!
Yay for word processors and computers!
I too learned shorthand (pitmans) and typing as a young lass - courtesy of Clarke's College - and somewhere have the certificates to prove it. The course was 'business studies' and you had to write orders, letters of complaint & etc., to practice your skills. My hand writing, of course, was appalling and homework was often thrown back at me in disgust!
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" (and) "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party" were our practice sentences, repeatedly typed to the William Tell Overture on ancient Underwood typewriters (complete with bell when your carriage hit the end). When a mistake was made woe betide if you rubbed it out on the carbon copy (literally a carbon copy) and went through the paper or smudged it.
Those were the days, sigh................ and I am so glad they are gone!
Yay for word processors and computers!
Last edited by Siouxie; Dec 7th 2011 at 3:31 pm.
Dec 7th 2011 | 3:58 pm
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Re: Touch typing
61wpm - no mistakes. Im ahppy wtih tht!
Dec 7th 2011 | 5:14 pm
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Re: Touch typing
Hmm 38wpm and 2 mistakes - that's why I was never a secretary and had other people to type my letters, until the PC wiped out the typing pool - baah humbug!
Dec 14th 2011 | 1:28 am
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Re: Touch typing
Impressive skills.....shame the folks in certain service industries don't have this when dealing with them on the phone
Dec 14th 2011 | 2:24 am
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Re: Touch typing
I started but fell asleep before I got to the end...............
Last edited by tallperson; Dec 14th 2011 at 2:25 am. Reason: erase my mistakes
Dec 14th 2011 | 7:11 am
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Re: Touch typing
I got 31 wpm with 4 supposed mistakes.
The words by and as are not normally capitalised mid-sentence so I didn't capitalise them. So I'm calling that two mistakes, not four.
