Comments on: Learn To Touch Type

By: Joe Splogs

Joe Splogs — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:38:48 +0000

I learnt on Mavis Beacon too, although I never became a pro. I particularly remember dancing ants and flys splatting on a screen. However, I learnt how to type without looking at the keyboard most naturally. A few years of instant messaging and hardened programming and I have become a bit of a beast to.

I do however find that I can’t type very fast if I am thinking about typing and am more prone to mistakes. Its like tying your shoelaces.

By: Natron

Natron — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:03:11 +0000

I bought my wife a copy of the Mavis Beacon CD, and it has helped her a lot.

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:40:10 +0000

I took a typing class in high school. I sat in the back row and looked at my fingers while the ancient teacher had us type to the beat of Camptown Races –which she played on a stratchy record. Can you guess how long ago I’ve been out of school?

Anyway, I never did learn how to really type without looking at least a little bit at my fingers. Plus I onlyuse 4 finger and my thumb. Otherwise I make way too many typos.

Maybe I should get some of that old software.

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:36:06 +0000

But you have the patience to spend twice as long as you need to on your written work???

Seriously, it is not that difficult to learn the keyboard, like I said it took me around 10 hours… try it you may surprise yourself…

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:15:04 +0000

I have been planning on learning to touchtype for so long now! Just don’t have the patience for it…

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By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:26:26 +0000

Yeah its bad, like I said I turned the sound off…. but it works surprisingly well, it is the ONLY thing I used to learn, and I learned qickly too… so despite the cheesy voice over I think its realy good….

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:59:54 +0000

The mentioning of Mavis Beacon seriously made me laugh out loud. What a classic old-school computer program. It is where I began to learn how to type. I can hear the annoying voice say “Mavis Beacon teaches typing” and cringing.