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ProfessorGAC

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1. Got Into A Rhythm, Didn't You?

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:48 PM

Sep 5

My mom was an amazing typist. She worked as an executive secretary for a government contractor before I was born.
She typed over 100wpm with zero errors back in the manual typewriter days.
On a computer, she was transcribing testimony from tape at normal talking speed to the day she died.
Because of that, I knew how to touch type before I could even write cursive.

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Guess what learned in the (2 1/2 hour) staff meeting this morning? I can type 38 words a minute. [View all] underpants Sep 5 OP

Got Into A Rhythm, Didn't You? ProfessorGAC Sep 5 #1

One of the two things I learned in high school- typing and driving a car underpants Sep 5 #2

I've always said I didn't graduate from high school Oeditpus Rex Sep 5 #3