The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Typing tutors
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 20:57:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5cb7edc8-7d43-aa3a-334f-18e17aa2fa16@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

On a completely different note... I’ve been delving into typing tutor programs of late. Quite a mishmash of approaches out there. Not at all like what I remember from junior high - The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, kinda stuff. Best of breed may be Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing on the gui front, and I hate to admit it, gnu typist, on the console front.

I’m wondering if there are some well considered unix programs, historically, for learning typing? Or did everyone spring into the unix world accomplished typists straight outta school? 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.

Thanks,

Will


             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-06  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-06  2:57 Will Senn [this message]
2021-02-06 16:55 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:22   ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 17:29     ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:33     ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-06 17:47       ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 18:06         ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 22:38       ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-06 22:47         ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-02-07  0:25           ` John Cowan
2021-02-08 22:20             ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 22:58               ` David Barto
2021-02-08 23:01               ` Clem Cole
2021-02-07 17:43         ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-07 19:28           ` Dan Cross
2021-02-07 21:32           ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-07 23:17             ` Henry Bent
2021-02-07 23:55               ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08  0:56                 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-08  5:15                   ` Erik E. Fair
2021-02-08  5:33                     ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08 15:54                       ` Will Senn
2021-02-08  5:29             ` Doug McIntyre
2021-02-08 20:41               ` Andrew Newman
2021-02-06 18:56     ` David Barto
2021-02-08 21:50       ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-09 16:29         ` Mary Ann Horton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-06  2:15 [TUHS] I just noticed all the cfont aka C++ in research Jason Stevens
2017-04-06  2:20 ` Noel Hunt
2017-04-06  2:21   ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-06  6:57 ` [TUHS] Unix emacs at Bell Labs and elsewhere Erik E. Fair

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5cb7edc8-7d43-aa3a-334f-18e17aa2fa16@gmail.com \
    --to=will.senn@gmail.com \
    --cc=tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).