Typing

But there are small bars on the F and J keys that tell you whether your fingers are at the right places. I thought once you get that right, the rest is instinctive (after months of typing even without serious drilling).

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So there are! I'll try again once I'm back home.

It may take about twice as long as before and lots of corrections, but I already have typed every post on this page and some on the previous one without looking at the keyboard.

I've tried feeling the bars on the F and J keys but it doesn't help unless I'm typing F or J

Well done Miisa!

With a little training each day, and making yourself only look at the screen whenever you can, you'll find that after a couple of difficult weeks, you won't want to look at the keyboard any more. You'll probably be slower than before for two weeks, then about the same for another two weeks - after that it's gain all the way!

Looks like I didn't make mistakes, usually I do make one or two.
It's a great skill to impress students with though. Some got a rather nasty surprise when I caught them cheating while I was typing. They thought I was looking at the screen

When I was at school, typing was for women only and so we never had typing lessons.

I do make a fair number of mistakes but, because I need to do most of my work with a high level of accuracy, I have a habit of automatically correcting things, even when most people wouldn't give a hoot. I even make corrections such as capitalising "Internet."

...I still make some mistakes, however... ;D

Typing was for women only? Interesting. I think people learn it faster these days because of the internet. When I was in school in about 7th or 8th grade, some of my classmates didn't even have a computer at home.

Whoa...So, you were a sexist, eh?

Yeah...I remember that attitude. In my world at the time, it was most prevalent amongst the zealous feminists, who refused to learn typing because it would reputedly condemn them to subservience.

Heh...Consequently, the world passed them by. What it did was condemn those who did not learn, male or female, if they went on to higher education, to unfortunate dependence upon others. One either had to suffer through typing out hideous papers oneself, or hired the services of a professional typist, usually another student, often female.

When I entered university the first time, I was typing on a Brother portable. By the time I graduated, I had an electronic typewriter with a limited memory. When I re-entered university in pursuit of a graduate degree, I started with the electronic typewriter, but quickly upgraded to my first Apple. WOW. Was that a 'great leap forward', as I could finally edit without disposing of entire pages. Correction tapes and bottles of white-out disappeared forever from my life.

All along, the rudimentary typing skills I have have served me well and I'm certainly glad I never got the 'arrogance' of assuming that the task was one for my inferiors...female or not. Now, I can air my opinions at will across the vast spaces of the Internets without requiring the services of typist. Ain't that great?

I think we all were in those days.