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Typing Numbers
Do any of you practice typing numbers? I was entering some stuff at work today and there were lots of addresses and I was trying to type properly. Typing numbers is hard and I'd forgotten how hard until today. I remember learning it in typing class.
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- Spazmelda
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Re: Typing Numbers
I remember practicing numbers in typing class too. I don't practice any more. I don't type them often enough for it to be worth it, I don't think. On the computer, I use the number key pad if I have to enter long bouts of numbers. I had bought a download of Maevis Beacon teaches typing for my son (which he hates) and I was doing it myself as a refresher. I quit when I got to the numbers 
- Fleetwing
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Re: Typing Numbers
Do you mean touch typing numbers? If so, then no -- I look at them as I type. Mainly it's for address purposes only, in my case. (Particularly when some typewriters have a proper 1, and others require you to use the lower case l, it's better to look first!)
- 5teve B
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Re: Typing Numbers
At the moment I AM practising touch typing numbers! I learnt to type several years ago when my children were working through the Mavis Beacon course. I have decided to see if I can get up to 60 wpm (from low 40s) and am working through the High-Powered Typing Drills book by Elma Whittle. I sometimes listen to Morse code on the radio and try to take that down on a typewriter. When I did my GPO Morse test in the 1970s at Portishead Radio there was a room full of radio operators with electric typewriters - this you tube link shows a local TV report of the place in action
- Uwe
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Re: Typing Numbers
5teve B wrote:
I sometimes listen to Morse code on the radio and try to take that down on a typewriter.
Now that's very cool. I learned Morse code for an amateur radio course I once took, but like so many other things in life, I've long forgotten it. Actually, that's not exactly true. I could still tap out SOS and CQ... 
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
