• klemptor@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ha, I’ve never heard hunt and peck called “chicken typing” before, I kinda like it!

    I learned to type in junior high on a Wang (with the black and spinach-green screen), and our typing teacher would tape a piece of paper to the top of the keyboard. Our fingers went under the paper so that we couldn’t see what keys we were touching. It made you learn quickly to find your home row keys, and after that learning to type was pretty fun and painless.

    Do kids not get a typing class anymore?

    ETA: before my typing class I ‘taught’ myself on a Selectric at my mom’s office - man did I have to unlearn some bad habits!