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Subj : Re: The Decline of PCs
To : Nightfox
From : Accession
Date : Wed Dec 17 2025 09:16 pm
Hey Nightfox!
On Wed, Dec 17 2025 20:01:10 -0600, you wrote:
> I've heard many people who learn typing on their own often tend to
> do hunt & peck, and can get good at that, but I don't think that's
> the optimal way. A typing class would teach how to do touch-typing,
> by placing your hands on the home row & practicing moving your
> fingers to where the keys are, and you eventually basically memorize
> the key locations so you don't have to look at the keyboard when you
> type. Unless someone is using software to learn touch-typing,
> there's a chance they may be typing by hunt & peck.
You seem to /hear/ a lot of things! ;)
Both of my high school kids (one senior (12th), the other a freshman (9th)) have had a Chromebook since about 6th grade, and can type just fine. Neither has had a class specific to typing only, but it's very possible that learning how to type is/was part of the curriculum without the need for a specific semester long class needed (probably a waste to dedicate half a school year to typing out sentences and paragraphs), as they use their Chromebooks for everything up to and including homework, tests, and school related emails.
You have to keep in mind computers are everywhere these days, whereas they were fairly new to the common household and pretty expensive back in the early to mid 90s where for probably /most/ people, their only access to a computer was a school or a library. All we really had back then was learning how to type, and if you were interested in that, start programming in BASIC or maybe even move up to Pascal if you were a real go-getter.
Regards,
Nick
.... Sarcasm, because beating people up is illegal.
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