Cute. I learned to type by taking a keyboarding class in high school- back when parents didn't buy laptops for their infants to use as chew toys. I never typed that sentence in class. To this day actually, I have never typed that sentence.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Not quite. No "s." Try "jumps." Our junior high typing class used "A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats." And the woncerful Dmitri Borgmann ("Language on Vacation") spent years trying to come up with a meaningful 26-letter sentence that used each letter once. His best, quite contrived, was "J. V. Pike flung D. Q. Schwartz my box." --John Bear, on the ferry to Stornoway
I'm lazier than the dog, so I prefer "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" which only has 29 letters.
I was terrible at typing class in school. It wasn't until I got a computer of my own and was able to use it full-time that I began to become a strong typist. But even then I never really learned how to type in the fundamental sense with the home row and finger placement stuff (I still don't do any of that). I just used the keyboard so much that eventually it became second nature. I now type very fast and with very few errors, if any, during a timed typing test (which I take now and then for fun).
Anyone remember manual typewriters & teletypes? Since I’m older than dirt, I learned ‘keyboarding’ on a Underwood manual typewriter, moved up to an electric, and then a teletype computer entry device (with punched tape input) in my local state technical college. :redface: Teletype Model 33ASR | Computer History Museum
