My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing when I was 16.
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.
I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.
I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.
The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.
I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.
The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.
I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
