From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6993 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2021 18:14:48 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Feb 2021 18:14:48 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7F7F19C90B; Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:14:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90ACA9BA50; Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:14:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A82A09BA50; Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:14:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1ABEE9BA42 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:14:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 8509435E31A; Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:14:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:14:29 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Jon Steinhart Message-ID: <20210208181429.GH13701@mcvoy.com> References: <202102081805.118I5TvM4164561@darkstar.fourwinds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202102081805.118I5TvM4164561@darkstar.fourwinds.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] [TUHS} Typing Tutor [and tuhs archive] X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 10:05:29AM -0800, Jon Steinhart wrote: > Will Senn writes: > > > > OK. I was hoping somebody somewhere had used a unix typing tutor, but if > > the TOPS-10 tutor was the only thing out there, was it any good? Surely, > > somebody somewhen knows of others? > > Never used a UNIX typing tutor since I took a typing class before UNIX was > a thing, but when my kid was young I had her use tuxtype (and tuxmath, ...) > which is pretty cool. Wandering a little far afield but ... I'm a self taught touch typist, if you can call it that. I've just typed enough that it works. But it's a thing that works when I don't think about it, as soon as I go "oh, I'm typing without looking" it stops working. So I try not to think about it. Funny thing is that I bought an excavator maybe 5 years ago or so. Using the joysticks to control that thing is just like my touch typing. I've done it enough that if I'm not thinking about it, everything just works. And that's after about 300 hours of experience on it, which isn't a lot. It's some, not a lot. I'm good enough that I set this skidsteer upright with it, which was something, that excavator is way too small for that 8000 pound skid steer but I got her up. And didn't break anything, or anyone, in the process. http://mcvoy.com/lm/skidsteer-rescue.jpg