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[sabrinamari]

Transcribing. Transcribing. Transcribing. Jump up and down! Transcribing. Transcribing. Transcribing.

Sigh.

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So ready to be done with this!

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[wgseligman.livejournal.com]

Now that you know how to do it, I've got 24 hours worth of biographical interviews that...

Umm, you can put down that butcher knife. It was a joke. Really.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Bill, I don't touch type. I use two fingers. I'm super fast with two fingers, but it's still a lot slower than a regular typist. Still, I wrote a dissertation, many drafts of a book, multiple articles and a metric shitload of blog entries, so I guess i'm doing OK. But I'm really slow.

I keep thinking I should try to learn with that "Mavis whoever" typing program so I can speed up.

But after all these years, I just don't know.

[wgseligman.livejournal.com]

I was taught how to touch-type in high school. For someone who likes to write, it's an enormous freedom. It enabled me to generate countless words of useless verbiage over the decades. On the other hand, I find that two-fingered typing activities like texting are slower for me than it is for the kids I see.

For someone who likes to write as much as you do, ten-fingered typing is a bonus. But for someone who likes to text as much as you do, two-fingered typing may be the more useful skill.

Perhaps you can learn to be bi-fingeral?

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

I don't touch-type either. I use some bastard arrangement of whatever fingers seem to work best. I need to keep the keyboard in my peripheral vision, but I don't need to look directly at it. I can go pretty fast... I tried to learn touch-typing back in HS, but I sucked really badly at it and skipped out of the classes.