A girl is going right into a grass region (apple II typing software)

[savant42]

Does "A girl is going right into a grass region" ring any bells with
anyone? I remember learning to touch type using an Apple II, and this
was one of the sentences it made you type. I have fond memories of
being in second grade and being able to type that sentence at ~ 70wpm.
I'd love to find a copy of it.

Josh

[jliss...@gmail.com]

Yes it does. I remember that being my favorite sentence during my typing class in elementary school and we used Apples.

[j...@jjj.jjj]

> From: MotoFox <us...@footron.bitnet>

>> Yes it does. I remember that being my favorite sentence during my typing
>> class in elementary school and we used Apples.
>

>"Ruthie tried the three teriffic, bright-printing typewriters."

in the original school version, was the word terrific purposely spelled
incorrectly or was this just a typo on your part?

[j...@jjj.jjj]

> From: MotoFox <us...@footron.bitnet>
>Typing error on my part. Composing Usenet articles whilst listening to
>holding-queue advertising on the telephone causes this. (As does holding
>the receiver to your ear with one hand and typing with the other.)


ha! you would not believe the typos i made when i used to type in those
superlong magazine listings back in the 80s. it also didn't help that some
magazines would purposely include errors to force you to buy their next
issue for the fix or the disk they offered at a premium price. as for my
typos, all those data letters and numbers started to look the same by the
seventh or eighth hour of typing. then when it wouldn't work,
troubleshooting it was another major pain. ):

[ckai...@gmail.com]

Thank god there are others! This sentence haunts me, in a good way, throughout my life. I remember just sitting there patiently waiting for it to pop up on the screen so I could flex my WPM prowess to my classmates. I still use words like "going" in passwords just because it flows so well. Figured I Google the sentence today and I'm happy to see this post exists, cheers!

[justin...@gmail.com]

This sentence still pops in my head every once in a while. I couldn't wait for this sentence to show up in Typing Class(with our keyboards covered) circa 1992. It was the one sentence I could always type over 100 WPM. Is this program still available anywhere?

[russe...@gmail.com]

Communi Keys, wasn't it? I will never forget that girl...

[aa...@handybook.com]

THIS was my absolute money sentence as well. back in 1st - 3rd grade ('91 - '93 for me) when we had keyboarding class everyone would joke about the girl going into a grass region because the arrangement of the letters allows for maximum WPM action. i would also love to have a copy of that apple II e software...touch type, was it called? i'd completely forgotten.

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[lee.p...@gmail.com]

I'm so glad I'm not alone. It pops into my head every now & again. My 3rd grade friend Ginny and I would skip all the sentences until this one...there was no penalty. This was around 1987 and we hit like 140 wpm lol. #Game

#Agirlisgoingrightintoagrassregion

[lee.p...@gmail.com]

I'm wondering what was #left into the grass region.

[Brian Patrie]

On 2018-09-05 21:20, lee.p...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm wondering what was #left into the grass region.

I'm wondering what constitutes a grass region.
A place where it's legal, perhaps? ;)

[Brian Wood]

Just got a new mechanical keyboard and feelin Typey! So of course the first thing I google is my favorite sentence from junior high computer class. "A girl is going into a grass region"- I was able to type the fastest of anything I've ever typed... like 90wpm or something. Somehow this particular sentence in its entirety became a single muscle memory stroke.
Glad I'm not alone. It haunts me :)
Brian

[Arthur Krumm]

I had to jump in here. Why did I google "A girl was walking right into a grass region?" I don't know but I DID!

I dominated this sentence and it's hilarious that all you dinosaurs did as well.

And did you guys know...............that if you finished any sentence, and then held down space bar before you submitted, that it actually counted towards your words per minute? I "cheated" and got like 200 wpm lol.

This was legitimately a life time ago. Good bye everyone.

[Ellen Williamson]

I just googled this today because I remembered that sentence from grade school typing class on the Apple IIGs, and made me smile that I'm not alone! A girl is going right into a grass region!