Comments on Grateful Dating: The number keys

Great stories and perspective! Now, everyone needs...

2011-09-28T16:54:15.960-04:00

Great stories and perspective! Now, everyone needs to know how to type or "keyboard." I wonder if they are teaching touch typing in grade school? Not that handwriting will ever be obsolete, but it's used less and less and cursive (never a fave) has nearly gone by the way. I say printers unite! :)

You provide an interesting generational perspectiv...

2011-09-28T13:49:21.480-04:00

You provide an interesting generational perspective. My grandfather started out as a secretary, and was a very good typist. His son--my father--never learned how to type, and is now regretting it somewhat as it is getting harder and harder to find administrative assistants willing and able to type his technical documents. My grandmother gave me an electric typewriter when I was in sixth grade and encouraged me to learn to type, perhaps because of her husband's experience (I'm male). That skill turned out to be invaluable. I can do the number keys not by site only on numeric keypad, and only because for my Ph.D. thesis I had to type in about 10,000 numbers.

My Mom made me sign up for typing class at the com...

2011-09-27T14:40:34.454-04:00

My Mom made me sign up for typing class at the community college when I was in High School because I didn't have room for it in my regular schedule. I remember thinking how crazy it was for her to insist I know how to type when I just knew I would have a "secretary" when I grew up. And now, even though I do have an administrative assistant I still do most of my own typing, so thank goodness she did insist!

But like you, I have never quite mastered the number keys, I have to look at them every single time.

I remember my first typing classes in middle schoo...

2011-09-23T22:35:56.362-04:00

I remember my first typing classes in middle school... we always had to type "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." It's funny, I practiced that line so much that now it's the fastest line I can type. :)