Did you take/or are you taking keyboarding in school?

Jen, I know typewriting very well and can type at at least 40-50 words per minutes without looking at the key board.

Hi dear well, i am one who is not a good typist and sure i never follow keyboard rules and i type with 2-3 fingers and look at the key board while typing I am not a good typist Take care

All of our children learnt to type on a computer keyboard actually and that includes our 2 sons. My partner learnt typing and as she says it was an old manual typewriter and they learnt to touch type. To make sure they didn't look at the keyboard, they had a board which say over the keys and partly down the frnt she said. They had to use that covering from about 2 weeks after they started to type an dhad it there for the rest of the year. While my partner might "grumble" about how hard it was to learn by that method, it obviously worked very well as she stil types without looking at the keys and does not have many errors at all. In fact she can type faster than our children and with more accuracy as well whihc gives her a laugh. Now I am totally different as I am one of those self-taught 2 finger typing people who also makes heaps of typos, some of which I do not see until it is too late. Basically I think that as long as we can type, with as few errors as possible naturally, and everyone can understand what we say, the speed generally does not matter too much. I do know that since I have been posting here on myLot my speed has improved though so a little bit of practice does not hurt us.

i never did take typing in school. when i got my computer u should have seen me trying to peck out the words. i have developed my own 2 finger way to type. works for me.

When I went to school it was on a manual typewriter where I learned to type. I still call it typing and some people (kids) laugh when they hear it. I took typing and stenography for two years. I hated sten!! LOL I have minor problems with the numbers because I got away from typing for a long time. I still have to think about what ones I am using, except when I type in my zip code. That is on automatic!! I still transpose some words like the/teh, but thank goodness for spell check!! I have my computer set up that no matter where I am typing, it highlights misspelled words. Now, if I use the wrong word, like their/there, it will not catch that, unless I am using the word processor like MSWord.