[ale] Today I put the keys back in order

[Jeff Lightner]

Funny thing about "think what you say".  More and more often I find
myself typing what I think and ending up with the wrong word.  "Their"
instead of "They're" (or vice-versa), "to" instead of "too" or even
"two".  That's fairly common but the one I've never understood is that I
often automatically add a "d" to end of words that end in "e" as if I
were making them all past tense.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ben
Coleman
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:22 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Today I put the keys back in order

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Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Back in the dawn of time (a/k/a my high school years) I ended up with
a
> free period so chose typing just for the hell of it.  (Back then they
> were actual typewriters.  The only keyboards for computers were on
> keypunch machines and I didn't see one of those until college.)  I was
> horrible at it and only did about 30 WPM by the end of the semester. 
> 
> However, once I started working on PCs (actual IBM PCs mind you as
well
> as an Adam at home) the typing put me ahead of many others and these
> days I type rather rapidly.  Amazing what 20+ years of practice does
for
> one.  

Similar story here.  I took a typing class one summer and then took the
usual high school typing class.  Best move I ever man in high school.
When I got into computers, the ability to touch-type made a big
difference.  I went though a period where I was dealing with several
variations of keyboards at once (multiple Burroughs terminals (ASCII
layout), PCs (Selectric layout), and a C64), and developed the ability
to adapt the the quirks of each of the keyboards I was using fairly
quickly.   About the same time I learned vi, and got 'vi fingers'
(finger memory for the usual vi keystrokes).

I occasionally get comments on my typing speed, but for the most part I
 don't notice it.  That's the nice thing about really developing
touch-typing.  You no longer think about typing, you think about what
you want to say, and your fingers just move (mostly) right.

Ben
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