Where did you learn to properly type?

[wvuwhat]

Took an elective class in 6th grade, picked it up pretty quickly. And, starting in high school had a job that required me to be on the computer for 6+ hours a day. Then, pages upon pages of papers throughout college.

So, I've learned to type pretty fast.

 

[lwood1]

Mavis Beacon

 

[SkyBell]

Took the required typing classes in elementary school, but it never sank in. Doesn't really bother me though, 70 WPM hunt and peck is good enough for me.

 

[malman89]

I'm 23, so not the oldest in the room, but learned at a pretty young age.

I was 8 and it was 2nd grade. Our school had a whole Mac computer lab. It seems pretty impressive looking back because our elementary school in general wasn't very nice or special at the time. It was just a plain public school.

I think we first started around goofing with how to make word files on our own floppy discs. I do remember some typing game though that we played weekly for an extensive period of time. It had like aliens attacking and you countered by using various parts of the keyboard in typing exercises.

Around that same time, we had got two Win95 computers in our house. My stepdad had one in his personal office and then we had a family one. We mostly used it for some awful games (some golf one I vaguely remember), but then there was like AOL 2.0/3.0 and so on. Been connected to computers ever since.

 

[jsgreen]

Another vote for Mavis Beacon on the Mac.

Until last year I couldn't touch type, but after using the Mavis Beacon system, I'm decent at it. Still loads of room for improvement, but at least my eyes are on the screen instead of the keyboard.

 

[puckhead193]

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That's how I learned back in elementary school. Do you think kids these days should take a required class in school?