Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2000

[Stephani Kapnick]

Formost of my life, I have typed using the informal "hunt and peck" approach. I used just two fingers and looked at the keys as I typed. Last month I decided to learn how to type without looking at the keys and using all my fingers. I have been using "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" which I think is excellent, but to be honest I am really struggling with typing. The hardest letters are: B, V, Y, Q and the comma (,) and period (.).

How did you learn how to type? Any one learn as an adult, after using the hunt and peck approach for YEARS? How long should I expect it should take to be able to type 40 WPM? (Using all fingers and not looking at the keys)

I bought a cheap cd called "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" when I was in college. After about a month of using it every other day for 1/2 hour, I could type 50 wpm. After another month, I am up to 80+ (as long as I don't have to throw any numbers in - they really slow me down )

I learned in 9th grade when I took a typing class. I learned it so well that I developed a habit of typing every word out in my mind and I still do to this day...DH asked me one day why my fingers twitch all the time.

I don't know what my speed is but I learned how to type using the mavis beacon software and some in a typing class I had my freshman year of college. I failed that class but I still learned a lot. I think the turning point for me came when I said (to myself), "YOU WILL NOT LOOK AT THE KEYBOARD TODAY!" It worked. I still struggle with the num pad and the symbols above the numbers because I don't use them alot and don't have the num pad on my laptop at home but I will have to say I think I am doing darn well. Keep at it you'll be surprised at how fast you'll learn. Also online chatting worked too. Gotta be a busy chat some of the time though.

I took typing in 10th grade and failed miserably. I was just too self conscious on the typewriters that everyone could hear when I went back to erase mistakes so I just never excelled. When I got my first job as a file clerk in a law office out of high school one of the word processing ladies would have me, on my break, sit at the typewriter in their office and type up paragraphs, then she would mark them up. For a while there most of the document I typed had red marks all over it. When someone moved up in position they moved me to a word processor position. The computer was just what I needed, I could type and make mistakes and no one would know it. All of a sudden I was a quick typer.

Last time I had my test done to at an agency I was at 109 wpm. I do make a lot of errors, especially when I am stressed, but that was my speed with corrections. If I don't concentrate too hard on what I am typing I fly by with no mistakes. I guess it helps that 85% of my job is transcription, which I LOVE.

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