Cool Typing Game

November 11th, 2005

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Cool Typing Game

I’m probably among the oldest people (at least, without getting into the real outliers) who learned to type on a computer. Though I think we had a word processor/typewriter thingy, I started typing correctly and in earnest around 1985 or 1986, when we acquired our monster IBM PC. I didn’t take typing in school, which seemed to me to be an enormous bore and a waste of time.

There were few, if any, cool games to help teach me. Thanks to Suw, I just discovered this nifty typing game. I got 723 on my first try–I don’t know if that’s lame, excellent, or somewhere in between. I think I type about 60 words per minute normally.

Comments: 14 Responses so far

sxKitten
November 13th, 2005
1:53 pm

1985? I can beat that. I learned to type on a Radio Shack TRS 80 CoCo, in 1980.

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Chris
November 13th, 2005
4:12 pm

1484 on the first try, but now my brain hurts.

I got my first computer in 1995, but I write code all day so that keeps my speed up.

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gillian
November 13th, 2005
7:59 pm

Anyone remember Letterfall? Now there was a typing game.

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Christie Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 9:46 am

Yes! I too used and LOVED letterfall! I’ve been looking for it for my elderly father who wants to learn to use the computer. If you know where I could get a copy now, please contact me (cyvonn@verizon.net). You were right, that was THE typing game.

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Derek K. Miller
November 14th, 2005
4:01 pm

I think you mean *youngest* people to learn on a typewriter. My mom’s a lot older than you.

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Derek K. Miller
November 14th, 2005
4:03 pm

Sorry, I misread the post. I thought you wrote “on a typewriter.” Damn that brain. You were right the first time.

I’m older than you (36), and while I had occasionally tried out typewriters like my mom’s, I didn’t really *learn* to type until we got a TRS-80 Model I in 1980. So while my mom learned on a typewriter, I think I can beat you here.

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