Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors

[Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>]

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I learned on a manual typewriter in 7th grade, but I got fast on a 
keypunch. To this day i don't use the right shift key, because it didn't 
work on a keypunch.

At Berkeley, everybody was already a touch typist. That's why vi 
commands emphasize lower case letters, especially hjkl which are right 
under the home position. The original reason for hjkl was the ADM3A, but 
when I added arrow key support to vi and disabled the hardcoded hjkl, a 
line of grad students made me put it back.

     Mary Ann

On 2/6/21 9:22 AM, Ron Natalie wrote:
> One of the smartest things my mother did was make me take typing in 
> summer school one year.    Little did she or I knew that being able to 
> type 60WPM was going to become a very important asset in my eventual 
> career.
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Clem Cole" <clemc@ccc.com <mailto:clemc@ccc.com>>
> To: "Will Senn" <will.senn@gmail.com <mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>>
> Cc: "TUHS main list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org <mailto:tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>>
> Sent: 2/6/2021 11:55:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:57 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I did see mention a while back about a TOPS-10 typing tutor, not
>>     unix, but in the spirit - surely there's some unix history around
>>     typing tutors.
>>
>> Nah   I just learned to push harder on the ASR-33 keys ;-)
>> Funny, back-in-the-day, the local public HS had a typing class for 
>> the girls, which two of my sisters took.  The all-male prep-school 
>> where my dad taught and my brothers and I all went, had nothing. But 
>> I had access to an ASR-33 and just migrated to it.
>>
>> To this day, my wife (who is a concert pianist/organist) can touch 
>> type but she is amazed at watching me with my 2, 3 or 4 finger style.
>>
>> Clem
>> ᐧ

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