micmic66
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posted on August 29, 2004 04:48:47 PM new
As many of you know, I am not the greatest typest around. I type with my 2 pointer fingers and make lots of mistakes, I might get 45-50 words a minute if I get a groove.
Doing ebay descriptions since 9/2000 is my only typing experience and I find it amazing anyone can use all thier digits for this most annoying skill...
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jtomp
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posted on August 29, 2004 04:51:09 PM new
I can type really, really, really fast. Of course, going back and correcting all the errors slows me down a bit.
Jane
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tomwiii
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posted on August 29, 2004 04:53:34 PM new
I,
otoh,
am da master of the:
Christopher Columbus Typing Method...
...seek & discover!
"I'm the master of low expectations." ~ GWBush
958
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OhMsLucy
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posted on August 29, 2004 05:13:46 PM new
I type 85wpm net on a typewriter and 100wpm net on computer, bursts go higher than that.
My claim to fame?
Lucy
[ edited by OhMsLucy on Aug 29, 2004 05:14 PM ]
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rarriffle
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posted on August 29, 2004 05:15:15 PM new
i can do 85 wpm but i have been doing it 8 hours a day for 21 years.
funny thing too, my high school typing teacher advised me not to waste my time taking typing ii. wish she could see me now, i can type, talk on the phone and drink coffee all at one time.
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OhMsLucy
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posted on August 29, 2004 05:16:54 PM new
I flunked typing the first time around...
Like Riffle, I typed 8 hours a day for a couple of decades.
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niel35
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posted on August 29, 2004 05:21:41 PM new
me too, Lucy - learned to type in high school on the manual typewriters where you had to hit the bar to bring the carriage back.
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Roadsmith
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posted on August 29, 2004 05:43:19 PM new
I guess some of us are showing our age! I too learned on a manual typewriter and have been grateful for the skill ever since. I do 100 wpm also, like others here.
When I see someone (usually a guy?) doing the hunt and peck, I feel sorry that he never learned to touch-type. It's a skill that used to be relegated to women, but now everyone benefits from it.
When I was growing up, a "career" aspiration for our girls would have been 1. secretary, 2. teacher, 3. nurse. I've worked at the first two, was aiming for nursing school when I got a full scholarship to a college and never looked back.
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Twelvepole
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posted on August 29, 2004 06:00:21 PM new
used to do the chicken method (hunt and peck) but now can get up to a blazing 35-40 wpm...
AIN'T LIFE GRAND... 
Re-Elect President Bush... the only true choice.
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Kevinatgrannys
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posted on August 29, 2004 07:52:32 PM new
I can do roughly 70 wpm on a normal day. My grandmother taught me how to type when I was quite young. However, some of the mistakes are a real riot! I have no feeling in 3 fingers on one hand and one on the other hand (Don't do auto mechanics, they said!) so at times my hand strays and off I go into the wild blue yonder.
Kevin
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neglus
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posted on August 29, 2004 09:12:53 PM new
When I was in school, the high school guidance counselor said that only girls who weren't intending on going to college should learn to type - so I took Physics instead. BAD ADVICE! I majored in English and wrote a gazillion papers and now make my living typing descriptions (in caps so I don't have to find the shift key all the time). I would say my typing fingering is more akin to piano playing than real typist fingering, but I get by. I insisted that my daughters take "keyboarding" (they don't even call it typing anymore).
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upriver
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posted on August 29, 2004 09:22:16 PM new
I can type about 75wpm like this.
I can aklsd tye8i abpt 200wpm lie th[pa!
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rosycat
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posted on August 29, 2004 09:36:23 PM new
Ahh, yes...I too took typing in school on a manual typewriter. Still have the typing book to prove it. (hmm...maybe I could sell it on eBay!). But I barely scraped by with a C.
The last few years on the computer and especially with eBay are what honed my skills. One day a few years ago I realized I was typing and not looking at the keyboard! I can actually type words and watch the screen!! Most days, that is...
And as far as words per minute go...
I take the number of minutes in a year, divide that number by 364, multiply by the number of hours I have typed that day divide that by...
...and I have NO IDEA!! 
"Being Overworked and Underpaid and Unappreciated
Is just a Perk of Being Middle-Class and Educated..." Mark Schultz (songwriter/singer)
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sparkz
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posted on August 29, 2004 09:39:31 PM new
Never timed myself, but it's not gonna set any speed records, that's for sure. OTOH, my daughter can type about 100 wpm. So I took the logical out. I bribe her to type my descriptions and save them as word files so I can copy and paste them when I list. I just listed a couple goodies for her that she paid $11.00 for. They went for $66.00. I paid all Ebay fees for her. That oughta be good for about a hundred detailed descriptions
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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Gtootie
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posted on August 29, 2004 09:56:24 PM new
The last time I was timed was about 15 years ago. I was at 70 then. I've keyed in a lot of checks and wrote a lot of letters since then. You would think I would be faster. But I don't do test well.
Be kind. Everyone is fighting their own secret battles.
...Author Unknown
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Gtootie
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posted on August 29, 2004 09:56:25 PM new
oops...double post
Be kind. Everyone is fighting their own secret battles.
...Author Unknown
[ edited by Gtootie on Aug 29, 2004 09:56 PM ]
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rarriffle
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posted on August 30, 2004 01:29:38 AM new
the reason so many of us know wpm, is because we were timed when interviewing for a job. gawd i hated that, the pressure, the pressure!
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CapYoda
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posted on August 30, 2004 04:12:02 AM new
I'm guessing 80+ wpm. But most kids type fast these days anyway.
45-50 is pretty decent, no?
I would think most places that require typing as a skill have the minimum set at 60 wpm..
but I mean 45-50 is still good.
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stonecold613
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posted on August 30, 2004 04:35:31 AM new
I too took typing in High School. It was such an easy class that it took the next higher level as well. Talk about the easiest two credits I earned while in School. And until ebay came around, I never thought I would be using that skill on a regular basis. Oh how times change.
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CBlev65252
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posted on August 30, 2004 04:40:09 AM new
I type at close to 100 wpm on the computer and about 75 wpm on the typewriter. Of course, I've been typing a lot of years. The tests don't phase me anymore since I've taken so many of them. Any testing I go through takes literally a couple of hours. Since I know a lot of software programs, they are compelled to test me on all of them. Then, they're amazed that I really do know all of the programs I say I do. They must have a lot of people who say one thing, but in reality it's another. Why on earth would anyone say they know a program when they don't?
Does anyone remember manual typewriters, correction tape and carbon paper?
Cheryl
. . .if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend.. . - War and Peace, Tolstoy
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alldings
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posted on August 30, 2004 04:46:45 AM new
Like mic I do two or three fingered typing. I have tried to teach myself touch typing, its so boring. I know where the keys are just can't get those other 6-7 fingers into the game! My 10 year old grandson is learning to type.
"See those marks on the F & J key these fingers go there." He tells me. where is my Mavis disk!
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earthmum
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posted on August 30, 2004 05:00:41 AM new
Cheryl - I sure do remember using carbon paper and onionskin and trying desperately to be accurate in typing, because correction was a PITA! The first job I had where they made copies on the copier - I thought I had gone to heaven. I learned to type in England in about 1955. We did have some IBM Selectric typewriters, even back then. I passed a test at 80 wpm on those. Then with computer keyboards I got as good as 120 wpm. Currently, I can still type about 80 - 100 wpm, even though I have pretty bad arthritis in my hands. I can't imagine typing descriptions with only two fingers.
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micmic66
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posted on August 30, 2004 07:28:48 AM new
I also have to look ath thr keypad or thids is ehau itr looks lole of I dont!!!!
Translation...
I also have to look at the keypad or this is what it looks like if I dont!!!!
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toolhound
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posted on August 30, 2004 08:27:29 AM new
I never took typing in school and that was so long ago it would not have made a diference anyway. When I got a computer and started selling on eBay it would take me all day (12 hours) to put on 10 items. When my Daughter would stop by I would corner her into typing up descriptions for me and I could copy and paste them in later.
Now I have been selling on eBay for 6 years and type about 40-45 words per minute by my Daughters testing. She says she does not know how I type that fast with 3 fingers and a thumb. She has offered to show me the right way to use my fingers but I think I am now typing as fast as I can think anyway.
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dorrie
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posted on August 30, 2004 11:27:01 AM new
A software program, "Mavis Types", can be purchased at Walmart for approx. $20.00. It is a great teaching aid for all age groups.
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toasted36
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posted on August 30, 2004 11:43:16 AM new
2 finger peck peck peck peck peck lol I can prolly type 50wpm with 2 fingers thou
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JAPErton
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posted on August 30, 2004 12:25:51 PM new
hmmmmm
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The qwerty system was designed to slow typists down so the typewriter keys of the old machines would not tangle up.
It is as antiquated as the non SI measureing system.
I type faster when I am composing than when I am copying. Could never get a temp job with my typos. But Ask me to type an email or compose a paragraph about a doo dad for ebay, I am having a lot more fun.
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ewora
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posted on August 30, 2004 12:45:15 PM new
I haven't timed myself or taken a test in years. I know that I don't have to look at the keys except maybe the occasional number...although, I have the 10 key number pad down pat.
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