I remember something in the past with someone connected with Broadway (a
man) being able to type 120 wpm. Big mucky muck producer I think.
j


> From: David West <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:10:44 +1000
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> Subject: Re: [BP] rivets -- i want to learn about rivets
> 
> Mary
> 
> As a teenage boy, I had almost the polar opposite of your experience.
> 
> At the beginning of my third year of five years at high school, my
> mother and I agreed that I should take Typing as my third elective
> subject, on the grounds that I was intending to go to University, and
> being able to type my essays and papers would be a significant advantage
> (we hadn't made the connection between the Apple IIe computer that I was
> spending my spare time at school writing incredibly Basic programs for
> and its subsequent evolution into the desktop PCs on which I have for
> many years written all of my reports and correspondence on a daily
> basis).
> 
> The school refused to accept my choice on the grounds that I was an
> 'academic' student, and should be taking three academic subjects as
> electives.  My mother had to demand an audience with the Principal in
> order to get me admitted to the Typing class - during which she pointed
> out that we already knew that I would be studying Maths I & II, Physics,
> Chemistry and one other subject, probably English (in the end, it was
> Art) in my final year, so that it really didn't matter which elective
> subjects I did in my third year ...
> 
> Anyway, I took Typing that year (1979, I recall).  Within the first
> couple of months of the class, when we were typing drills (on the manual
> typewriters) to recordings of music with a strong metronome, I was
> annoying my classmates by typing in first double time, then triple and
> occasionally quadruple time.  By the end of the year, I had an
> accredited typing speed of 55 wpm (words per minute), and had passed at
> least one test at 65 wpm.  The target for students in the class was 30
> wpm.  
> 
> I put it down to having learnt the piano from the age of 6, and thus
> being used to moving my fingers independently without watching where
> they needed to land.
> 
> For most of my first decade at work, I used to reassure myself that if,
> for any reason, I was one day out of work, I could go and get temporary
> work as a typist!!  Never did though.
> 
> Over thirty years on, I know it was one of the most useful classes I
> have ever taken.  I am able to type significantly faster than I can
> write by hand, and it is correct and legible and electronically
> transmissible.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> David West
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The listserv where the buildings do the talking
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mary
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 2:34 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BP] rivets -- i want to learn about rivets
> 
> Because folks have shared childhood learning experiences, here's one of
> mine (although I did have similar epiphanies and clandestine
> wanderings and borrowings -- none of which involved kitchen stuff--
> which might explain how enlightening this particular experience was.
> 
> So, in the beginning high school, I was drooling at the prospect of
> electives after eight years of Catholic school. I signed up for shop.
> The high school counsellor/advisor changed it to typing. And I thought
> she was my friend. Girls don't take shop and girls need to know how to
> type.
> 
> .....
> 
> Signed unrepentant,
> 
> Mary V
> 
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