CalifChick
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Joined: 10/28/2007 From: California Status: offline
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I saw the bitching about keyboarding scroll by, so I came to chime in... I've hired and fired a number of people in my day. No one works for me that has to look at their keyboard to type. It's a time-suck. Like Miss Angel, I'm better than 120 wpm. I got that fast by having to take manuscripts that were typed on typewriters and key them into the computer. The book I was typing would have been out of date if I looked at my keyboard, at the manuscript, back at the keyboard... When you get around 50 wpm or so, your brain does this cool thing where you can type without "reading" the words. Your eyes see the words and your brain tells your fingers what to type, but you have no comprehension or memory of it. That happened to me when I started typing that book. I find it really odd, frankly, that my brain can make my fingers type and when I'm done, I have no idea what I typed, but the work is all correct. That's the point where you really start picking up speed, when you no longer "read" the words, and you stop thinking about which key to hit. Cali
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AKA "The Undisputed Goddess of Sarcasm", "Big Bad Cali" and "Yum Bum". Advisor to the Subbie Mafia, founding member of the W.A.C. and the Judgmental Bitches Brigade, member of the Clan of the Scarlet O'Hair-a's and Team Troll
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