Touch Typing

Number of posts : 50 Registration date : 2008-06-07

Practicing things everyday improves your skill significantly e.g:
-In Kendo ( I do Kendo ) it's easy to know how to do a proper strike. It is significantly harder to do one well.
-Your typing speed will increase the more you type. I can type without looking, and I always do.

If you can't see yourself progressing try to think of how hard things were when you first started or what you could do / couldn't do.

Hope this post helps anyone Smile

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Sun Jun 15, 2008 2:17 am

Thanks! And I know what you mean!! About touch typing. Such a handy thing!! Since I like to type (about anything and everything), it's very handy not to look at the keyboard anymore Very Happy

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:13 am

They're all kinda sad but funny

AH yes! I can touch type too! It's so handy! Razz

... except when the teacher is dictating notes and you have to wait for ages for everyone to type it all out but you're done... I get given the sheet to type off

W00000t for touch typers!

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:01 am

Yes!! Handy Very Happy

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:45 pm

I can also touch type... sadly, I dont have a laptop, so it doesn't help me much in school. Sad

My school gave touch typing lessons when we were in year 4 and 5. It was not fun. We used software called 'Type to Learn'. Did anyone else have to do that?

It wasn't all that great, but at least I know how to touch type!

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:30 am

i dont know how to touch type i wish i could tho do you have any pointes

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:32 am

Oh! I just heard from my friend that all public schools in .. maybe all of australia.. maybe only our state, but anyway, all public schools are being sent laptops to help through the school years! How cool is that? haha! And i might be moving to my friend's school so then i'd have two laptops

Jenny, just type a lot. You get faster... and try slowly moving your eyes away from the keyboard.. and then eventually to the screen .. i dunno if that works or not haha

Number of posts : 50 Registration date : 2008-06-07

Try to remember where all the keys are, and more than just your index fingers.

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:18 am

I used to remember when the teachers in Kindergarten taught us about computers :S

We had to memorize the keyboard and play Mario games Very Happy

It was cool Very Happy

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:31 am

You had to memorize the keyboard? Isn't that a bit harsh on kindy kids? lol it's hard enough to remember the alphabet at that age!

But playing mario games is cooL! I can't wait to get Super Smash Bro. Brawl!! So awesome!
OH! And Crisis core came out today! YAYAYAYAY

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:51 pm

Oh no! WHen I was in kindy we had to learn multiplication and division as well!!

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:21 am

!!! such harshness! I only learnt that in year 4! ... well i am terrible at maths so i was a slow learner.. i didn't learn how to read the time until year 4 either. It seems so simple now!

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:48 pm

Don't worry; at the time it was hard, but it helps Very Happy

We had to learn fractions as well. Can you imagine???

LOL

It was fun though...one of my Kindergarten teachers didn't give us any homework, so that was good Very Happy

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:45 am

Fractions! wow! well that's good that they didn't give you any homework!
I think in kindergarten, i only ever learned the basics like the alphabet, the numbers, how to read. stuff like that. And i remember just as i finished kindergarten, they got this really cool caterpillar type play thing in my old classroom, and you could crawl through and it had windows and things. I was so annoyed. It happened in year 6 too, they remade the playground with all the cool new play equipment and the bright colours and things.
So wait.. you had more than one kindergarten teacher?

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:55 pm

My kindergarten was like Tams... we just sat and learned easy stuff! Very Happy

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:58 pm

Wow...I feel weird now...

Um..If I remember correctly, I started school at 3. Went to Kindergarten then Preperatory(sp?) before I was in Grade one at the age of six.

It wasn't that hard...but I remember we had to learn how to learn cursive writing. We have to buy books, notebooks, stuff like that and carry it around. It was heavy as!!!

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:36 am

Hmm... i went to preschool at 3, and then went to school at age 4, but then i turned 5 in march. and i was 6 in grade 1.

I remember learning cursive writing... i hated it. my writing was so terrible! to this day, i do not write in cursive, unless it's my signature. if i ever see someone with a printed signature, then i'll do mine like that too.

I think the school provided books for us.. and we had desks with the little box or whatever you call it, where we kept the books. And if we had homework, then we'd take the books home in our bags.

Such differences! but primary school is the best time! You don't have a worry in the world and the days are endless! No responsibilities either

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:08 am

We have books that our parents pay for, so we are actually able to write on it

But yes, I agree, elementary is one of the best times Very Happy

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:48 pm

I started school at 2 and a half... but that was a preschool...
We did learn how to count and how to write the alphabet though...
I went to three years of preschool, started Kindergarten at 5, and was 6 in 1st grade.

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:03 am

lol i dont remember when i learnt the alphabet

all i remember is this girl who had pigeoned feet and another girl who swallowed a marble, and i somehow ended up with her x-rays of the marble in her stomach or wherever it was .. which is incredibly strange XD

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:52 pm

Strange indeed

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:27 am

Oh and i left my Grace-Margaret teddy bear at preschool and when we went back to get it, it was in the cloud room or rain room .. wahtever it was called, and it was in the bathroom hanging on a peice of string from the ceiling or the fan? lol. that might have been a fragment of my imagination but i just remember it like that.
Have you ever had that? where you somehow make something up in your memory and it turns out really bazaar?

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:32 pm

YES!!!!!!

I remember something...but then I can't remember...because I have such an out of control imagination!!

:S

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:08 pm

Ah but an out of control imagination is the best! Lots of rich people have wild imaginations Razz

And jsut think, if you're rich, think of all the mangas you could buy!! Very Happy

:D

Subject: Re: Touch Typing Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:16 am

Hehehe...you're right!!

BTW, do you know how fast you type??? :S

Because the most I can type is 52 words per minute :S