2010-02-14, 06:59 PM
FrozNlite Wrote:Typing Challenge or whatever the hell the 3rd-5th grade typing program was they made us do. If any Americans know what I'm talking about you'll remember it as that one program where you could fly to various planets in our solar system by passing certain typing challenges.
Did it help? No. When you were deemed "good enough," they "upped the challenge" by placing a cardboard visor over your hands so you couldn't look at the keyboard. Which meant I f[ucked up all the time. Plus there was a glitch in the program where you could lag it, then type the whole sentence as slow as you wanted, un-lag it, and have it count as a super fast score. Lol elementary school glitching.
This, only we used a different program. Personally, I find myself typing in a rather unorthodox way compared to the way that we were taught in school. For me, I never found it comfortable and I always felt like my fingers were too tight and restricted. Later on when I started browsing the Internet more often and that school required more computer-based assignments where we had to type reports in Word, this way grew on me, and it's been that way ever since. Everytime I go type stuff up at my school's library, people always comment that I type fast and usually thank them for the compliment and joke about it. In fact, whenever I have to talk about how fast I type in real life, I always describe my typing as "typing like the Fist of the North Star".
In terms of grammar: I had always viewed that anywhere where I can take the time to write, I should write properly. With games, I used to believe in the abbreviations my friends had always used, but then I stopped after a month because I simply didn't like it.