Subj : Re: SSN (was: Re: Civic d To : DARYL STOUT From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Wed May 08 2019 14:08:00 -=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Ed Vance on 05-03-19 17:12 <=- DS> Yet, I never took a typing course in my life...becoming a touch DS> typist after first calling BBS's 35 years ago, and becoming a Sysop 29 DS> years ago. I did have a typing course in high school... I was doing pretty well, until the teacher noticed that my attention was on my hands on the keyboard, instead of on the paper in the typewriter... She put a paper up to hide the keyboard, and my rates/accuracy plummeted... So I never really learned touch typing... at least not then... Nowadays, after years of typing messages for BBS echoes (at times, in a dark room), I come close to being more of a touch typist... I still check my fingers from time to time, but mostly I look at the screen and can fix typos on the fly (the fingers know where the backspace key is as well as they know the alphabet)... :) I don't keep my hands really in place on the keyboard, either... it's a cross between using both hands all fingers and using two or three from each hand all over the keyboard... I can type it all with either hand, actually... And often do... ttyl neb .... Mom says I was a gifted child; she certainly wouldn't have paid for me ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .