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07-03-2018, 08:59 PM
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How Many Fingers Do You Use?

Are you a hunt and peck typist or all 8 fingers and two thumbs.

I type fairly quick, secretary for many years.
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07-03-2018, 09:03 PM
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I'm a touch typist, I type very fast and was taught in college how to use Qwerty. Some people are amazed that I don't look at the keys and type as fast as I do, guess I'm good at something!
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Ditto re touch typing. I also was taught shorthand, which is a dying art.
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07-03-2018, 09:13 PM
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Re: How Many Fingers Do You Use?

What do they use now to replace shorthand?

I did speedwriting and the dictaphone.
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07-03-2018, 09:24 PM
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Re: How Many Fingers Do You Use?

I both read and type very fast.
Use both hands.
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07-03-2018, 09:31 PM
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Re: How Many Fingers Do You Use?

Originally Posted by Adanac ->
What do they use now to replace shorthand?

I did speedwriting and the dictaphone.
SMS language also referred to as text language.
Get one of those iphones you can speak into and it will type your message for you. Ask it a question, it will give you an answer . Amazing stuff now, and add on 'apps'. Well that's another mystery ! Personally I don't understand any of it, and neither do I wish to, but that's the future. No need for Dictaphone , speedwriting or typewriters any longer.
Remember the introduction of the electric typewriter ? They went like the clappers after those cast iron things.
Comptometers were another thing. They worked , but what a noise !
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07-03-2018, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Puddle Duck ->
SMS language also referred to as text language.
Get one of those iphones you can speak into and it will type your message for you. Ask it a question, it will give you an answer . Amazing stuff now, and add on 'apps'. Well that's another mystery ! Personally I don't understand any of it, and neither do I wish to, but that's the future. No need for Dictaphone , speedwriting or typewriters any longer.
Remember the introduction of the electric typewriter ? They went like the clappers after those cast iron things.
Comptometers were another thing. They worked , but what a noise !
I remember going from the old heavy typewriters where you had to really bash the keys to the electric ones and as soon as you so much as lightly touched it used to type the same letter over and over again hahaha, took some getting used to them leccy typewriters. Enjoyed the transition to the computer keyboard
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07-03-2018, 09:40 PM
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Two thumbs
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07-03-2018, 09:51 PM
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Two, and pretty fast. Not bad for a bloke is it?!
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Originally Posted by Floydy ->
Two, and pretty fast. Not bad for a bloke is it?!
Not at all Floydy.
 
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