jims203 Loc: Connecticut

I played the piano as a kid so using all my fingers was normal. In HS I took personal typing and got up to 125 Wpm. We typed to the music and when I got an electric typewritter with a power carriage return I thought it was the cats meow. I would say photographers in general can't type or spell well. That class served me well. Years later I bought an IBM Selectric II with different balls for fonts. After the computers came out I liked the IBM keyboards action tactical feel and click so you knew you hit the right key and didn't have to look until you were done. I even made some pocket change in college typing a few papers for friends who couldn't
deal with all the errors.

jimneotech Loc: Michigan

Any one use Dragon Naturally Speaking? It's getting pretty good these days.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

I took a typing class in high school and even if I am away from the keys for awhile my fingers remember.

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

In signal corps its called the foxer or fox test.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back testing 1234567890

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I never took typing or learned the proper way. I became adept at the "Hunt-n-Peck" method...

RonH Loc: Shoreview MN

Typing was the only real skill I learned in HS. I don't remember one thing that was taught to me in HS other than typing. Didn't get to use it in the military as on the flight line all of our inspection reports were written into a log/book. Today I still consider it one of the best skills I have.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I learned two things in High School that have served me well. The first was typing, which all students took because term papers were required to be typed. The other is proper English. In my high school, papers in English classes received an F for a single spelling or grammatical error. It seems lots of people even of my age never got that advantage.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I agree!! Taught for 40 years in NJ. Excellent districts. As an aside, I'm frequently humored by the criticisms by others about the exorbitant taxes in some states. NJ is one of them. Lived here for 66 of my 80 years. Your comment about the quality of education is valid. Here are two links:
1. State rankings for Education https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/
2. State rankings for Taxes. https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-highest-and-lowest-property-taxes/11585/
Each may draw his/her own conclusions. Mine - "you get what you pay for".
Mark

Then they

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

I took two semesters of typing in high school. Was never really any good at touch typing but I always remember the home keys and basically where all the rest of the keys are on a standard qwerty keyboard. After high school I worked in fast food while going to college and then I became a small equipment mechanic, stuff ranging from chain saws up to large garden tractors and industrial lawn care equipment. No need for typing there. When I finally got tired of dirty finger nails and bruised knuckles and smelling like gasoline, I got a job as a computer operator. Typing suddenly came back into my life. Over the years I continued to go to school and eventually became a programmer. I'm what I consider a hybrid typist. I'm still lousy at touch typing even though I've been making a living typing for 38 years now. When I'm working on a standard keyboard, I use all ten fingers but I still have to watch the keyboard, even though I know where the keys are. When I'm using a virtual keyboard such as the one on the tablet I'm typing this response with, I use only one finger. I can probably type 30 words a minute with one finger, on the tablet. The thing I dislike the most is how auto complete/correct inserts words I didn't type. Unlike many folks, I usually go back and read what I typed before pressing send to make sure what I'm sending is what I typed and it makes sense. I do wish others would do the same. I've read some postings here that do not make much if any sense at all. I understand that many Hogs are older than I, and I'm not young, so they have a legitimate excuse for disconnected sentences, but some times, I struggle comprehending what's posted.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Mi kibored skils suc. Mi spiling skels arr worrse But I can explain the Cardiac Activation Sequence. And Explain the atrial and ventricular thresholds in a pacemaker implant procedure.

Marionsho Loc: Kansas

I bee's sooo impressde.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I can see lots of objections to that. I don't like the computer-doctors at all, though. Now, I see the back of my doctor's head and hear his voice as he asks me questions he reads off his computer. There is always a struggle or two to get things entered. The last time I went for my physical, I was given a couple of sheets of questions to answer in the waiting room. The doctor used to ask me those in person. I can see a time in the future when the patient will plug himself in at home, data fill flow somewhere, and the insurance company will start looking for excuses to drop us.

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

I can use all eight fingers and both my thumbs at speed..unfortunately it comes out on the screen completely unreadable, however..when I revert back to my middle fingers and type slowly it makes sense!!

Ralloh Loc: Ohio

One of many reasons I don't go to the doctor. They get their claws into you, find all kinds of reasons to push more pills at you, and demand you come back every three months or sooner. The only thing I take is thyroid since I had mine removed due to thyroid cancer back in 1978. I aim to keep it that way until I croak.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Learned touch typing on an early IBM in 9th grade back in 59/60, then trained as a clerk typist in Army 66.

May have changed, but when I retired from teaching in 2007 the high school class schedule called it "Keyboarding", I often covered classes for the business dept guy who taught it when he was in meetings. Cost me my conference period, but made my paycheck happier.