Quoting Daryl Stout to Ed Vance on 05-03-19 17:12 <=-

Yet, I never took a typing course in my life...becoming a touch
typist after first calling BBS's 35 years ago, and becoming a Sysop 29 years ago.

I did have a typing course in high school... I was doing pretty well,
until the teacher noticed that my attention was on my hands on the
keyboard, instead of on the paper in the typewriter... She put a paper
up to hide the keyboard, and my rates/accuracy plummeted... <G> So I
never really learned touch typing... at least not then... Nowadays,
after years of typing messages for BBS echoes (at times, in a dark
room), I come close to being more of a touch typist... I still check my fingers from time to time, but mostly I look at the screen and can fix
typos on the fly (the fingers know where the backspace key is as well as
they know the alphabet)... :) I don't keep my hands really in place on
the keyboard, either... it's a cross between using both hands all
fingers and using two or three from each hand all over the keyboard...
I can type it all with either hand, actually... And often do... <G>

ttyl neb

... Mom says I was a gifted child; she certainly wouldn't have paid for me

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