Ridiculous typing excersizes

[Freeky]

I'm trying to improve my typing speed on this learn to type site. This is the one I just completed:

The exercise was
A plumbing system is very much like your electrical system, except that instead of electricity, it has water, and instead of wires, it has pipes, and instead of radios and waffle irons, it has faucets and toilets. So the truth is that your plumbing systems is nothing at all like your electrical system, which is good, because electricity can kill you.

[Freeky]

One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him.

  I can see some people here doing that...

[Freeky]

Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches us that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important electrical lesson.

[Payne]

Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches us that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important electrical lesson.

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Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches us that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important electrical lesson.

wow.

[Richter]

WTF? 

I wanted Mavis Beacon's scalp after 30 min. and gave up typing "right".
Years later, I only can type by advanced hunt and peck, and ingrained knowledge of relative key positions.
You're doing yourself a favor learning it the RIGHT way

[LMNO]

I'm getting the idea that the point of these exercises is that you can't anticipate what the next word or phrase is, so you learn to only type what's in front of you.

[Freeky]

I'm getting the idea that the point of these exercises is that you can't anticipate what the next word or phrase is, so you learn to only type what's in front of you.

Yes. And that is a drawback to having a repeat excersize, or a program that doesn't have alternates. But I did get the electrical lesson one twice in a row.

WTF? 

I wanted Mavis Beacon's scalp after 30 min. and gave up typing "right".
Years later, I only can type by advanced hunt and peck, and ingrained knowledge of relative key positions.
You're doing yourself a favor learning it the RIGHT way

i learned in high school, but my skill has degraded through unuse. :/

[Nast]

They taught us typing starting in 1st grade and HOLY HELL was it boring. I mean, as a 7 year old sitting down in front of a computer to type sentences for 45 minutes wasn't very fun. Although we got to play computer games when we were done.

Oh, and it mustn't have done a load of good, because my typing technique is horrible. I use my index fingers for like 75% percent of the letters and don't keep my back straight, feet on the ground, and hands on the home keys. But it works for me. :shrug:

[Eater of Clowns]

I'm actually a pretty solid typist, at one point coming in between 90 and 100 words per minute (no longer).  I owe it to a few things, like having withdrawn from my first typing class in high school because we were learning on typewriters, then re-enrolling in a class on computers so I could fuck around but learn the actual technique, then playing online games so I had to practice by socializing.  A few of my co-workers look at my fingers when I'm writing something with a fury and they're a bit shocked.  I guess the K-9 dog picks up on it when the officer visits with him, one time he was curious as to what was making the noise and he came to investigate; suddenly I was attempting to click a wet German Shepherd nose instead of a mouse.

Linkage to the website you're using?  These prompts are awesome.

Edited in:  The typewriters thing, that was 2002, well beyond the obsolete realm of typewriters usage as a practical skill.  Quite a few of my friends still had to learn on them.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Fuck that lameass shit - try THIS instead