My 12yo daughter is following a typing course at school, learning to touch type. Students were able to use their own keebs during this course. Being a good parent, I suggested she was using my ‘old’ Leopold FC660C with Topre switches. Good tooling are half the work I’d say. But I only let her use this at home.
This week, I got a letter from the teacher. She was underperforming. Made too many mistakes. Almost 60% wrong hits.
So, I did some test exams from the same course with her today, at home, and she finished all of them instantly with little to no mistakes, doubling the keystrokes per minute threshold.
I asked her how is was possible that she was so underperforming at school.
Her response: “Dad, those keyboards are really really bad. Everything is so flat, I don’t feel what I’m doing. The one at home is so much better”.
I think I spoiled her…. 😬
wait type courses do exist? and in common schools?
When I was in elementary (a few decades by now) we also had computer classes. One of the things we were taught was typing, even had a batch wide competition.
in my school we played some stupid games during computer class
they were required in Massachusetts, as well as office suite proficiency. However, judging by how nobody I’ve met in my professional life knows how to use a word processor, everyone ignored them.
in my country people that work every day with a computer can’t even open Google, and they get paid really well…