When I was in high school (in the early sixties) I tried to sign up for typing, which was taught on manual typewriters. I was told that the class was for girls only, and I was turned away. I never did develop good typing skills. I'm pretty much a two-fingered typist. Ironically, I have probably done more typing than 90% of the female classmates who were allowed to take the class.

Precision figured mightily in those days, which may also have pre-dated white-out. Eliminating an error was a big deal. Now it's dead easy, and auto-correct has already fixed several errors in this message. 

On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 8:14 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:

steve jenkin wrote in
 <E212D205-B786-4441-A95B-B5F5546B5C6C@canb.auug.org.au>:
 ...
 |I’ve never heard anyone mention keyboard skills with the people of \
 |the CSRC - doesn’t anyone know?

What i personally find more fascinating (given that -- in the
right condition -- i type pretty fast even in total darkness but
darkest possible monitor brightness) is the multitaskability some
show, in respect to combination of mouse and keyboard (or even
dual-mouse if i remember a message of Rob Pike right).  I once
watched a video on the google tube of Russ Cox dancing acme doing
go testing, could be it is [1].  When he starts to actually work
a bit (late on iirc), that is thrilling, i could never select /
paste (kill snarf yank what do i know) that fast.

  [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

--steffen
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