[made it to wave 13 just now, score of 1225, accuracy of 95.4%, longest streak of 95]
I type like an asshole.
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I learned to type in high school, way back in the school year of 1995-1996. I might have talked about this somewhat in previous posts, I'm not sure.
My typing teacher got her jaw broken by a student who backhanded her with a wooden hall pass. She was out for a few months and we had substitute teachers who didn't know much about typing or our computer system at the time.
The previous year, hackers had knocked out all the school's computers for about 3 months with what they called "The Stealth Virus." There were versions A, B, and C of the virus, and every time they'd knock out one version, another would pop up. This sounds laughable nowadays, but people at large were pretty ignorant about computers at the time and network security was not much different. I knew a lot of students who ended up having to teach their own teachers things when it came to computery stuff.
This is all to say that the subs were sooo unprepared. We were using Windows 3.1 and you had to go through DOS to get it going. For those couple of months, many of us students decided we'd rather play Sim City or like, Chopper Commando, than actually do our work, and most of the time, we got away with it.
We did have to run a program that tested our typing speed, but when the sub wasn't looking, some of us would just jam on keys really fast and then record that as our score, because the program wasn't testing any kind of accuracy. Just jamming on keys, banging out gibberish, I got 330 wpm.
But the slacking off hurt my typing. We ended up moving past some things I should have worked harder on. I can type okay when it comes to everything except numbers and the whole corner past the letter P. I usually mess those up more than anything. I also don't have a good feel for differentiating between shift, control, alt, and so on, even after having played games for years, even getting into programming stuff. I hate these fuckers: {}, [], as well as +, =, _, -, \, and |, I'm not too keen on <, >, and /, and I don't do anything with the NumPad stuff.
I hate it when a programming environment automatically closes some braces or tries to do shortcut things for me, because it messes up my flow and I always have to delete the closing brace/bracket because it's not where I was going to put it.
I don't even use my laptop's built in mouse; I had to get a wireless mouse that has the USB plugin deal, because that's what feels more natural to me.
I hate typing on my phone. I am a big dude and have big thumbs. I turn autocorrect off because, as Matt Berry says, "You can fuck that sky high!" If shit lags and the typing cursor doesn't update on something as I'm typing, I get pissed off. And if I'm banging something out on my phone, I'm not going to give two shits about spelling errors; well, I'll give one shit, but only enough to make sure my words are legible and you know I'm not having a stroke.
I hate, hate hate hate, when the cursor gets auto-moved to some place when I'm in the middle of typing. Like if I type out my username real fast and I've moved on to the password, and the website FINALLY fully loads up and pushes me back to my username, I get mad, because it tends to happen while I'm still typing and now part of my password is visible.
My typing teacher got her jaw broken by a student who backhanded her with a wooden hall pass. She was out for a few months and we had substitute teachers who didn't know much about typing or our computer system at the time.
The previous year, hackers had knocked out all the school's computers for about 3 months with what they called "The Stealth Virus." There were versions A, B, and C of the virus, and every time they'd knock out one version, another would pop up. This sounds laughable nowadays, but people at large were pretty ignorant about computers at the time and network security was not much different. I knew a lot of students who ended up having to teach their own teachers things when it came to computery stuff.
This is all to say that the subs were sooo unprepared. We were using Windows 3.1 and you had to go through DOS to get it going. For those couple of months, many of us students decided we'd rather play Sim City or like, Chopper Commando, than actually do our work, and most of the time, we got away with it.
We did have to run a program that tested our typing speed, but when the sub wasn't looking, some of us would just jam on keys really fast and then record that as our score, because the program wasn't testing any kind of accuracy. Just jamming on keys, banging out gibberish, I got 330 wpm.
But the slacking off hurt my typing. We ended up moving past some things I should have worked harder on. I can type okay when it comes to everything except numbers and the whole corner past the letter P. I usually mess those up more than anything. I also don't have a good feel for differentiating between shift, control, alt, and so on, even after having played games for years, even getting into programming stuff. I hate these fuckers: {}, [], as well as +, =, _, -, \, and |, I'm not too keen on <, >, and /, and I don't do anything with the NumPad stuff.
I hate it when a programming environment automatically closes some braces or tries to do shortcut things for me, because it messes up my flow and I always have to delete the closing brace/bracket because it's not where I was going to put it.
I don't even use my laptop's built in mouse; I had to get a wireless mouse that has the USB plugin deal, because that's what feels more natural to me.
I hate typing on my phone. I am a big dude and have big thumbs. I turn autocorrect off because, as Matt Berry says, "You can fuck that sky high!" If shit lags and the typing cursor doesn't update on something as I'm typing, I get pissed off. And if I'm banging something out on my phone, I'm not going to give two shits about spelling errors; well, I'll give one shit, but only enough to make sure my words are legible and you know I'm not having a stroke.
I hate, hate hate hate, when the cursor gets auto-moved to some place when I'm in the middle of typing. Like if I type out my username real fast and I've moved on to the password, and the website FINALLY fully loads up and pushes me back to my username, I get mad, because it tends to happen while I'm still typing and now part of my password is visible.