Typing Skills

[chet]

It's pretty obvious there are alot of folks that are a wee bit faster than me. Some of da posts that show up on the forum would take me days to type.   :-[

[chet]

The early results sure make me feel better.   ;D 

[Gilman]

I really appreciate the members that are not accomplished typist on their input.  I can't imagine how long it must take them to type their posts, but they do.  I thank you 'hunt and pokers' for sharing your knowledge with us, one peck at a time

Good survey, I like this one.  I'm really curios of who's typing out there.

David

[WH_Conley]

When I get 2 fingers goin I have to make sure spell check is on.

[Gilman]

 :D :D :D

[Fraxinus]

I'm a touch typist but not a very good one.  Half a year in high school.  I can still hear Miss Hunt saying "Fingers on the home row!"

[DanG]

Too bad you didn't take high school typing from Mrs. Holloway, Chet.  She woulda straightened out your Yooper self.  These keyboards are a piece-o-cake compared to the old upright Underwoods we had to pound out 35wpm on.  What I really like about typing on the computer, is the instant correction. I proofread as I go, and it would ruin my day to have to start over just because of a double strike or misspelling.  I took Mrs H's class in 1961, and I can still type without looking at the keyboard.

[etat]

I chose  Too fast for thought process.

But actually the truth is, I can type much faster than i can spell.  Most times after I post I realize this and go back and correct the worstest of the spelling.  Some of the spelling I don't change cause in spite of what the spell checker says, that's the way I thunk it!

[etat]

Hey DanG, I learned on one a them manual Underwood's too! Liked em much better than the old Royals.  47 words per minute in Mrs. Rowans Class.  (She was really cute for a teacher)

[chet]

I'm a touch typist but not a very good one.  Half a year in high school.  I can still hear Miss Hunt saying "Fingers on the home row!"

I'm a touch typist too.    As long as my eyeballs can see what I'm touchin'.   ;D

[Gilman]

CK,
Sometimes I just like how you're too honest.  ;D

[KiwiCharlie]

Hey,
Im pretty good with two fingers, but I still need to look aT THE KEYBOARD WHILE iM TYPING...  AWWW dANg!!   ;) :D
Cheers
Charlie

[Brad_S.]

I took typing class in high school, back when computers were novelties run by puch cards. I took the class not knowing the skill would one day be usefull, but rather, I was the only male in an all female class (they were considered "future secretaries" back in '75).
Even with those odds, I didn't fare too well (late bloomer) but at least I can type! :D

BTW, I can type faster than my thought process, but that doesn't mean I'm a fast typist.  :

[etat]

The first sentence Mrs. Rowan had us type, "I had a jade sale at the lake".  She musta made us type it a hundred million times.  The grades in the class were pro rated and lots a folks didn't like that i could type so fast, until I started typing a couple of em's timed test and would slip it too em so's they could pass.  I had done had all mine in and didn't have to keep taking the test but I'd type along anyways. Actually one guy that was a senior tole me that if I didn't he'd break my arm.  Considering that we was sorta friends and he was semi kidding, or not,  I helped him out.  Now Mrs. Rowan weren't no fool and pretty sure she knew what was going on.  She KNEW that guy weren't gonna get no kind of job where he'd be typing and probably wanted him to pass so's he wouldn't take her class again.  So I figured by helping him I was helping her out too. Still don't feel bad about it.

[Rockn H]

I'm with Brad.  It was either Home Ec or Typing and I could already make PB&J.  :D :D :D

[isawlogs]

  I'm a two finger typing adict... as long as the two fingers dont hit the letters too quickly I'm doing OK ... the only two keys I know where there at with out looking are the backspace and deleat .,..
 

[Paschale]

I just typed out "I had a jade sale at the lake" a bunch of times, just for kicks.  That's sort of like a tongue twister for your fingers!  Made me realize that I'm just as much right handed at typing as I am in everything else.   :  I had a great typing teacher, and all of us turned it into a competition back then.  I was usually one of the quickest, but my accuracy suffered, which still is the case today.  It's very often two steps forward, one step back.   :

[Furby]

But actually the truth is, I can type much faster than i can spell.  Most times after I post I realize this and go back and correct the worstest of the spelling.  Some of the spelling I don't change cause in spite of what the spell checker says, that's the way I thunk it!

That's me!
Don't matter if I'm typing, writing, or running my mouth, for some reason whole sentances get left out.  :-\ :
Never did take any typing classes, taught myself. ;)

[CHARLIE]

My high school typing teacher was a Mrs. Cordell.  I hated typing back then (1961) because that was supposed to be for girls!  Well, I ended up in a job where I used the computer a lot and also had to write program specifications.....my typing skills came in real handy and even improved.  In 1986 I wrote Mrs. Cordell a letter of appreciation and thanked her. It was none to soon either because about 4 years later she had Alzheimer real bad.

[Roxie]

Wow, is this bringing back memories.....35WPM.....only 2 errors.  I had a male typing teacher.  He didn't like me.  I shined in his class though and when I graduated, my final timed test was 99 WMP with one error.  That was on an IBM Selectric with the amazing little ball rotating.   :D  The teacher, Mr. Baker, told me that I'd never amount to anything in business because of my attitutude.  I was not shy and I have never had a problem expressing myself.  The best part was when I went to the 20 year class reunion and Mr. Baker was there greeting us as we arrived.  He stuck his hand out and said, "Well, Roxie, what are you doing with yourself?"  I smiled and said, "I'm the Chief Financial Officier of a 10 million dollar manufacturing firm."  I've got to tell you, that felt really good.   :D  If I had a "proper business attitude" which in 1970 meant secretary making coffee, I never would have made it.   ;D  By the way, I excelled at shorthand too!  A completely lost art now! 

[old3dogg]

I can use 2 fingers but I still hunt and peck a lot.Im also a self taught typer.My new job requires a lot of computer work so Im getting better.I thank God everyday for spell checker!

[Fla._Deadheader]

  I can type much faster than I can think.  : : :  It's especially good when the keyboard is shoved over about 2 keys. Looks like some Ancient civilization language.  : :

  Sometimes, both fingers hurt real bad when I get done, ESPECIALLY when the whole DanG post disappears when ya hit the SEND button.  >:( >:( :D :D

  Never use Spell Checker. If I could make a livin Spellin, I would be a gazillionaire.  Don't allow fer misteaks thoo.  ;) :D :D :D :D

[jflytle]

Do you count backspace in that 35wpm.

I can get all of the fingers going, but if I think to much about the act of typing I have to look at the KB.

John

[Norm]

Ahhh yes typing class....one boy and twenty girls, what's not to like about those odds.  ;D   Miss Dirks hated me because she thought I was just there to scope out the girls (she was homlier than heck) and did everything she could to get me to drop the class. I even got up to 60wpm if I was using the new IBM electrics. The drill I remember as we were learning was her standing up there saying aaa bbb ccc lll. Now I'm lucky to average 20wpm. :D

[tnlogger]

 I knew there was a good reason why most every time i post i get that warning .
Some one has posted while you were righting  :D :D.
My finners overtake my brain mosts of the time  ;D or it might be the hillbilly in me.
I am self taught started on a old comerdore in the old BBS and worked my way up to thei here compaq on this here super hwyway. Boy now that brings back memorys.

[pigman]

I just don't understand this poll. :( I only use my mouse to copy and paste words. It is slow looking for the right words in other posts,  but it helps in the spelling problem. 8)    I only need the left click on the mouse, so I guess I am a one finger writer.
Bob - the the non keyboard writer

[Hokiemill]

Like a lot of you guys I took a typing class in high school.  I needed an easy elective and I figured there would be a lot of chicks in there.  Turns out it was one of the two most valuable classes I had in high school (and maybe college).  The other was geometry.  My crappy day job keeps me staring at a computer and keeps my typing skills up.  Touch typer.  It annoys my wife when I'm at home looking at her while she tells me something and I'm still typing on something else.

[sawguy21]

Most of my posts look like Charlie's because I can't type and look at the screen.  Keep hitting cap lock instead of A:D Boys were not allowed in typing class and would not have dared anyway

[chet]

That's kinda what I was told by our student adviser in high school. He figured typing was what secretaries were for. Dat ole boy got his butt fired about a year after I graduated.   ;D

[Jeff]

CLASS HAS STARTED!
Please record your grades here and please be honest! Two practice attempts to see how the test works then take the test.

Forestry Forum Typing Test

My results. I am not very good. Never had typing and never touched a keyboard until after 1997.

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 171 cpm
Characters per second : 2 cps
Words per minute : 31 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Okay
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on

[jjmk98k]

Percentage Accuracy : 97%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 2%
Characters per minute : 183 cpm
Characters per second : 3 cps
Words per minute : 32 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Okay
Overall Accuracy : Too Good

8) talk about never wracking, i do so much better off the clock just typing whats in my head!  The results were my first try, the second try was far worse!

[redpowerd]

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 212 cpm
Characters per second : 3 cps
Words per minute : 37 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Okay
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on

my right hand got stepped on by a cow this morning, index and middle finger still throbbing :-\

[leweee]

You notice all my posts are short. ;D Had  a choice in grade 9, could take typing or auto shop, being shy I took shop : If I try and use two fingers it takes twice as long to fix all the mistakes. :D This forum is a great help to my limited literarey skills. Me grammar sucks. English teacher use to tell us " you kids ain't got no grammer". ;D Oh yah and this appears every time I try and post:

Warning - while you were reading a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.

: ;D :D :D :D 8)

ps. I dropped out of the typing test....my typing sucks... big time

[chet]

I don't need any test DanG results ta tell me my typin' stinks.   :'(  

[Jeff]

I don't need any test DanG results ta tell me my typin' stinks.   :'(  

CHICKEN

[Tom]

I guess Charlie and i were lucky in a sense.  We didn't have any girls in our school and typing class was encouraged.  Touch Typing has been one of the most useful skills I learned in school.  I'd have never thought that it would be.  Mrs. Cordell, the Coach's wife, taught typing and book-keeping.  She was one beautiful lady.  It made it a lot easier to sit in a class doing repetitions on the keyboard when she was sitting at the front of the class.   She would walk the aisles too, not to reprimand but to help.  You could tell she was there even if she walked up behind you 'cause she smelled good.  Just as nice a lady as one would ever want to meet.  She developed Alzheimer's in her later years and is gone now.   I think of her on occasion when I am having trouble finding a key.  I always had trouble with the numbers and special characters on the top row.

Touch Typing is a tool that is really not that difficult to learn  There are drills that can be found on the INTERNET that will show finger placement.  Once that is done, it is just practice, practice practice.  You have to teach your fingers where the letters are located.  Just like riding a bicycle, you never forget totally.  A little time on the keyboard and it comes right back to you.

As popular as the QWERTY keyboard has become and as dependent as most jobs are on folks knowing how to type, everyone should make an effort to learn touch typing.  

I recall a favorite saying of my Grandmother, "can't never could".

Oh yes!  QWERTY.   That is the name of the keyboard because it is  the characters just above the line that you rest your fingers upon.

Your left index finger rests on "f" and your right index finger rests on "j".  From there you can find the rest of the keys.  You should be able to look down and see the "g" and "h" between your hands.

It's actually fun and self-challenging.

[chet]

I guess Charlie and i were lucky in a sense.  We didn't have any girls in our school.

I don't know if I'd call dat lucky.  ;D  :D  :D  :D

[Jeff]

 :D :D :D

[leweee]

just a little history lesson ....QWERTY keyboard configuration was created to keep vowels from jamming the keys on the old manual typewriters....fact is sometime stranger than fiction :D :D :D

[Tom]

It's not as bad as you might suppose. 

Nobody made fun of us for taking typing,   ...............and we had a girls college about 4 blocks away. ;D

[Jeff]

gal durn it Chet, I spit diet coke in my keyboard.  :D :D

[pigman]

Man, I must be getting slow with my copy and paste method. Only got 672 wpm, with 0 mistakes. 8)
Bob - the slow copyist

[Kirk_Allen]

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 299 cpm
Characters per second : 4 cps
Words per minute : 51 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Good
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on

I spend LOTS of time writing letters, reports, evaluations etc. and every day I thank my Dad for my typing ability.  I was amazed as a kid watching him type on an old manual Underwood.  He was a Teacher and Farmer.  He told me that when you get older you will be gald you learned how to type so make sure you take any typing class you can.  I took two semesters of typing in High School and the rest is history.  I dont look at the keyboard and for some reason it just comes natural. 

[Curlywoods]

My two fingered typing has gotten so good, there is often smoke signals coming from the keyboard  8)

[Hokiemill]

I'm having some weird problems with the test.  I took it three times.  All three times I ended up with about 335 CPM, but it showed my accuracy at around 39%.  The weird part is that I didn't see any differences between what I typed and what the paragraph had.  Two of the three times I did make about 3 errors, but corrected them as I made them.  The third time I made no errors as far as I could tell.  Strange but true.

[Stump Jumper]

smilies are quick  ;D
i think i will check out this cut and paist methed of pigman  :

[Jeff]

I'm having some weird problems with the test.  I took it three times.  All three times I ended up with about 335 CPM, but it showed my accuracy at around 39%.  The weird part is that I didn't see any differences between what I typed and what the paragraph had.  Two of the three times I did make about 3 errors, but corrected them as I made them.  The third time I made no errors as far as I could tell.  Strange but true.

Remember, spaces, caps, punctuation, all have to be correct. Could be a browser problem too. Not sure if it works for anything other then I.E.

[Roxie]

How the HECK are ya displaying your results?   :D :D :D  The test covers up the edit/copy/paste on my keyboard.   :D

[Larry]

Percentage Accuracy : 84%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 15%
Characters per minute : 183 cpm
Characters per second : 3 cps
Words per minute : 32 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Okay
Overall Accuracy : Okay

This test was way to hard....test we had to take when I was in the service was;

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog's back.  1234567890

Had to type the same sentence again and again with a speed of 45 wpm.  Fastest typest we had was the "two fingered flash". :D :D

Whoops....almost forgot Roxie....highlight your score with the mouse and hit ctrl/c to copy then hit ctrl/v to paste.

[johnjbc]

Percentage Accuracy : 99%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 652 cpm
Characters per second : 10 cps
Words per minute : 112 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status : Absolute Top Class
Overall Accuracy : Brilliant







Only used Paste once

[Jeff]

Percentage Accuracy : 99%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 652 cpm
Characters per second : 10 cps
Words per minute : 112 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status : Absolute Top Class
Overall Accuracy : Brilliant

AH HA!  THe first Forum member confirmed to have 12 fingers.

[Jeff]

I see!  Cut and paste once. I tried that too. That falls under Cheating! :D

Percentage Accuracy : 99%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 13000 cpm
Characters per second : 216 cps
Words per minute : 2240 wpm
Words per second : 37 wps
Total Speed status : You weren't serious
Overall Accuracy : Brilliant

[CHARLIE]

Percentage Accuracy : 9%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 90%
Characters per minute : 350 cpm
Characters per second : 5 cps
Words per minute : 59 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Too Good
Overall Accuracy : Very very Bad

I reckon it's a good thing I ain't still in school. :D  Now I know dang well my accuracy was better than that.....way better.  But I'll take the blame as long as I get all the credit.

[chet]

   :D  :D  :D  :D   I wonder if this thread is doing Kirk's broken ribs any good.  ;D

[Kirk_Allen]

Chet I'm going stir crazy not being able to cut any wood.  I have been stuck in the office all week and its driving me nuts. 

I did manage to go look at a job today.  (See chickens to Sawdust)

I think I might try some work tomarrow, on a small scale ;D

[pasbuild]

My posts reflect my typing skills, very few posts consisting of short choppy sentences . The only time I use two fingers is when my left hand index finger is on the shift key and the right index finger ( MY TYPING FINGER ) hit another key.
I usually lose my train of though while looking for the right key to punch :(

[leweee]

My posts reflect my typing skills, very few posts consisting of short choppy sentences . The only time I use two fingers is when my left hand index finger is on the shift key and the right index finger ( MY TYPING FINGER ) hit another key.
I usually lose my train of though while looking for the right key to punch :(

I feel your pain.....me too :'(

[FiremanEd]

Thank you Mrs. Moore.

Not sure if I ever told her that. She taught typing and accounting. Very likely the two most benificial classes I took in highschool. (being as how I obviously didn't pay no tention in english class)

Ed

[Wildflower]

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 448 cpm
Characters per second : 7 cps
Words per minute : 77 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status : Too Good
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on

[KiwiCharlie]

Hey,
Its faaar easier when the words are coming out of your head, and youre not having to stop and look up at the screen to see what to type next!! ;) :D

Percentage Accuracy : 97%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 2%
Characters per minute : 237 cpm
Characters per second : 3 cps
Words per minute : 45 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Okay
Overall Accuracy : Too Good

Cheers
Charlie

[pasbuild]

Percentage Accuracy : 5%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 94%
Characters per minute : 86 cpm
Characters per second : 1 cps
Words per minute : 17 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Poor
Overall Accuracy : Very very Bad

I'm getting better went from 14 words per min. in school to 17 today ;D
at this rate I'll break the 20 wpm mark at 60 years old.

[isawlogs]

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 94 cpm
Characters per second : 1 cps
Words per minute : 17 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Poor
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on



  Being french and doing an english test .. I dont think I did that bad ... teach do I get a little time off for good behavior ...

[FiremanEd]

Percentage Accuracy : 99%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 343 cpm
Characters per second : 5 cps
Words per minute : 56 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Too Good
Overall Accuracy : Brilliant


Once again, I say THANK YOU Mrs. Moore. Wonderful Wonderful lady. And I hear she's STILL teaching, she'd been there "for-ever" when I left there 18 years ago. She's gotta be 80.

Great link Jeff!

[Corley5]

Percentage Accuracy : 71%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 28%
Characters per minute : 130 cpm
Characters per second : 2 cps
Words per minute : 21 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Poor
Overall Accuracy : Poor

: :D :D :D :D

[Paschale]

Percentage Accuracy : 33%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 66%
Characters per minute : 391 cpm
Characters per second : 6 cps
Words per minute : 66 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status : Too Good
Overall Accuracy : Very Bad

I'm speedy...but not so accurate!   :  I can still hear Mrs. Peterson telling me, "Dan, it's not a race!  You need to SLOW DOWN and become more accurate." 

I think now though, I'm pretty stinking quick with the backspace key and fix things on the fly...my overall accuracy after reading the test was pretty accurate, but there was a lot of backspacing goin on.

[maple flats]

I'm with Corley5, those are about my numbers too. Actually I can still type with my hands on the keyboard as taught in typing class but rarely do. Oh, by the way, I married the best typest in the class and we will celibrate (? sp.) 38 years in Oct. and it keeps getting better!! ;D

[pigman]

maple flats,
When I first read your post I thought you were saying you were celibate.
Bob the poor reader 

[chet]

 :D :D :D :D ;D :D

[Fla._Deadheader]

  But Bob, he says it's gettin better every year.  : : :D :D :D :D

[Don_Papenburg]

Much eisier to type with the words coming from  the brain than a paper or screan.  I took typing in HS went from 15 wpm to 30 in one year! I had to use the old manual type writer. Used to do the touch type in school .but hadn't typed for 30 years . I now can type with two fingers and some times as many as four.  It is surpriseing that I remember where the letters are at times.

[pigman]

I keep hearing everyone praising their typing teacher. Well, I had the worst typing teacher in the country. :( He didn't know the first thing about teaching  >:(. He couldn't even type himself. : It is a wonder I can even type at all!
You see, I never had a typing class, I was self taught. ;D
Bob the religious typist- " seek and thou shall find"

[chet]

I musta had dat same DanG useless sad excuse of a teacher.   :-\

Chet da nontypist

[Gipper]

Had two years of it in high school - 9th and 10th grades - back in the early 1960's.  Got pretty decent at it then, even on the old manual Royal typewriters.  I think there might have been a few of the Underwoods in there the 1st year.  Used the skills learned a great deal through college and then in my chosen profession, prior to retirement. 

Not nearly as proficient at it now!  Fingers must be a little larger (or the keys are a little closer together  ;D.)  And is seems that arthritis, bursitis, and the other 'itis boys sure have a way of slowing the finger movement. :D

[Doc]

I am not about to pick on anyone here for the hunt and peck. I started out that way, and worked my way into it gradually. I still watch the keyboard while I type, but don't need to.

I found that forums like this one,a nd active chat rooms make your typing skills grow quickly. it is hard to keep up in a conversation if you don't learn to type faster. It all comes in time like anything else. I am sure I will not learn to run a mill overnight either, so in the end everyone ends up on the same level.

Doc

[Patty]

My boys are always making fun of my  typing skills.  :   I took one semester of typing in high school and didn't learn a darn thing....guess that is partly my fault since I usually picked that class to skip out on.  ;D   My boys started leaning typing in elementary, they call it key boarding. Their fingers fly over the keys, it is amazing. I get by pretty well, especially if the words are in my head and not written down on a piece of paper. I really have tried not to look at the keyboard, since I do know where all the letters are and everything, but habits are hard to break and my eyes just seem to go there inspite of myself. Kinda like telling Norm to not look at the girlie calender on the wall everytime he walks by....he just can't help himself!  :D

[WH_Conley]

Patty, my girls can type super fast, from chatting online with their friends, but you can't read it, no spelling at all.

As far as Norm, he's just feeling pity for those poor homely girls. ;D

[Jeff]

Here is an example old old example of my typing skills from my early web days, even before the forestry forum. Back when I thought I had time to paint and have a personal website.  ;D

(if you are using anything other then I.E., this wont work)

https://forestryforum.com/jeff/me.htm

[WH_Conley]

Funny how the backspace key is used more than the rest isn't it? :D :D :D

[Jeff]

 ;D

[tnlogger]

 :D i was almost afeard to look at this. thought it might be one of yer boggieman tricks. ;D
i slid way back from the monitor expecting to see a GRIT eating gater jump out a me  :D :D :D

[MULE_MAN]

Well without the Backspace key or Delete key . It  would be hard to type
anything that makes sense  :D  :D  :D   ;)

[Norm]

The day I stop being interested in girlie calenders....well that's just toooo cruel to think about. ;D

[WH_Conley]

Norm, my wife says that will be the they will be throwing dirt in my face. ;D

[Corley5]

Dee wouldn't let me buy that Brooke Burke calendar in Barnes and Noble the other day and it was even HALF price  :;) :D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Phorester]

In my late 60's senior year of high school I had to take an elective.  I took a half year of typing, the last half year in woodworking. I've used more knowledge from those two classes than any other.  Made a little money in college typing others' papers because typing was still a novel skill for us boys back then.

Had manual typewriters with one electric we took turns using.  I was the only boy with about 20 girls in typing.  Pure pleasure for me, don't think it made any difference with the girls.

May the keyboards be with you......

[Jeff]

Wow, you must have really been challeged if you didnt make it through high school until you were in your late 60's.  Most guys around here that I know give up if they dont get there by 19 or 20. ;)

[Phorester]

My family is slow, but we're very thorough.  ;D

[Phorester]

Just for that, Jeff, here's one relating to your typing challenge.....



Subject: Typoglycemia
   
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rdanieg.
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taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the
ltteers in a
      wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat
ltteer be in
      the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll
raed it
      wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition is
arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia.

      Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.


      HAH!  So much for your typing contest!!   ;D
     

[Paschale]

Don't you mean:

HAH!  So mcuh for yuor tpinyg ctseont!! 

:D :D

[Jeff]

Yep. shaitgrt form the hlils of Vriniiga  it wnsan't a tpinyg ctseont. it was a tpinyg tset 

[Phorester]

Whoops, you're right, Paschale.  Sorry for the (ahem).... mis-spelling.