I was just instantly transported back to 8th grade...blue hall...Mr. West's room. Oh junior high. Our school had colored halls...my favorite was to have my locker on yellow hall...right in the middle of the school...red hall not so great...on the end by band hall which I didn't use! Anyway...back to Mr. West's room...filled with over 30 electric typewriters. I can hear the sound of them clicking away and see the floor to ceiling keystroke chart on the wall. Mr. West was eccentric to say the least. One thing he asked us to do religiously was the one minute timed typing test. I LOVED those drills! We had to manually add up our words and subtract the errors to calculate our WPM. It wasn't until keyboarding the next year when we actually used computers to do this for us!
77 words Do you have 60 seconds? Go back in time with me! Let me know how you do!
Noah is 18
13 hours ago
5 comments:
:) thanks for taking me back to jr. high too! i loved typing class!! :) and i thought our electric typewriters were so advanced! ha! ;)
80 words a minute with 0 errors. I was only in typing class for two weeks and then I dropped it to get into leadership class. So, I am somewhat self taught. I did have those gloriously outdated computer games on our Apple IIe computer with the hugenormous floppy disks! Awesome post!
melissa-you were at bjh too, right?
tricia-congrats on 80WPM! and i can't tell you how many hours i spent playing oregon trail on our apple IIe!
yes, i was at bjh too! :)
Oh man! this was fun!!! I had Mrs. Christensen for typing class and I loved it. I just took your quiz and I did 104 wpm! In high school, I was in the 70's. hee hee! I'm feeling good :-))))
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