(Touch-typing is typing on a keyboard without looking at the keys.)
I’ve heard some people say it’s something most kids learn on their own. My school had typing electives but I didn’t take them. I learned how to touch type during the first Covid lockdown, right as I was finishing compulsory secondary school. What about you?
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Never learnt at school. It’s actually something I’ve been researching about recently as I’ve decided I need to put more effort into learning to type more efficiently. I’m 22 now and my typing skills aren’t great.
I think kids at secondary school here (11+) should learn it in ICT lessons. There’s games online that would make it more enjoyable as a competition based task. It can elevate you beyond other students and candidates, as well as save you a lot of time.
No idea, like Im doing it rn. But I cant recall when I stopped needing to look at the keyboard to write. It’s something very useful now that Im in University at least.
18 when I went to uni, I learnt it using some online game where you fought off aliens by typing quickly.
To be fair I’m old enough that we simply didn’t have computers in any meaningful way at school so we never learnt typing skills there.
People who type a lot learn it from practice. From my knowledge, it isn’t something you learn at school.
I’m not even sure I can actually touch type. I’m trying to type this message without looking at the keyboard directly and I’m actually doing very well, so I guess I can touch type. But I think I usually look at the keys a bit when I’m typing. I’m 31 btw.
dunno, somewhere around early highschool probably. It’s not a skill people generally focus on specifically i feel
Playing world of warcraft as a kid, I was very sociable and liked chatting to people.
well, i started to learn it at age of 12 in school (7. class Realschule in Germany, Bavaria). however i only learned some of the letters. Oh i did my home practise on an electronic typewriter! Then i moved to another state. There the EDV-course started one year prior, so there were just a few hours of tpying lesson and the rest was learning MS Office on MS DOS. (it was end of the 90’s).
added: oh, just one detail. at the computer assigned to me, the fucking mouse didnt work, so i learnt how to use the Alt key effeciently.
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Then i had another typing lesson in the year 1999 in age 17 in a school called “Kaufmännisches Berufskolleg”. This made it kinda okay.
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After that the internet age began. So i was playing online and continued using the 10 finger system for typing. so now i was improving and started to get fast at typing. now a bit forward into the year 2002. I was employless and was looking for a job. There a worker agency searched had an order for a customer to enter orders into the computer. I got that job, as i passed the writing test. However as i needed to enter a lot of numbers, i noticed its faster to go with numpad. So i was kinda slow on my first day, as i learned the numblock on the fly. So since then i can type blind on normal keyboard and numblock.
edit2: just made a quick typing test 370 keystrokes per minute
I was around 10. Since I moved to Ireland and was viable for an exception in Irish they had me do extra English classes.
In those classes I learnt speed typing with my hands covered on some kind of computer app, honestly was kind fun.
I learned to touch type by using MSN Messenger as a teenager in the early 2000s.
in some schools in serbia there are actually classes in school that teach you touch-typing
however most kids just learn it on their own while they’re young. I learned it at 12-13 maybe. too much computer use I know.
though I am a programmer so it kinda makes sense for me. but touch-typing is really common throughout serbia regardless of profession if the person is below the age of 30.
I think around early teens (around middle school), both for Russian and English. It just came with using a PC every day. For Hebrew, half a year ago.
Pretty necessary skill for emigration, by the way, as my laptop keyboard doesn’t have Hebrew, and local Israeli keyboards don’t have Russian, so looking at keys would be very useless in many cases. Being able to blindly type in 3 different layouts helps.
I did a college course when I was about 19 and it was one of the modules. I’ve been all asdf jkl; since then.
That was in the year 2000 so don’t know if they do that still these days.
My mother put me on an online course when I was 7-8 years old. I got annoyed with it during it so it took me about 9 months instead of the projected 6 to complete the course, but after I did I could do it very well, and still do to this day.
At like 12-14. Most of our IT-lessons in school consisted of getting us to type properly.
12 learned it at elementary school. It was an after school lesson for those who wanted. My parents though it was important so I had to do it. Then I didn’t really like it, but now I’m glad I did. Every Monday I had to carry the type machine to school and back home.
In school at like 9 , although that’s not a standard thing we just happened to have the option at my school.
You’d just spend a hour a week with a program
Attempting to chat to multiple people while playing games, during the infancy of online gaming. I would’ve been mid teens
Learnt it at school, we had a program for it so around 15-18.