I told myself at some point I would try Tech Tip, and I figured now was as good a time as any to try it out. I went to the Typing Test that was suggested on the assignment overview
page. The screenshot I took is a little hard to see, but I had 73.46 word per minute with 97.35% accuracy. I was glad to see that even while I'm feeling down and out since I'm sick that my scores were still a fair amount above the average, which can be seen on the upper right-hand corner just below my results. I liked the little blurb it had me type, it was very encouraging. I then went to
Typingtest.com to compare my skills with a different website and found I had similar results with both the short 1 minute version and 3 minute version: about 70 words per minute with about 5 mistakes. I liked that I could choose between about 8 different types of text. It featured "Aesop's Fables," but I went with "Zebra- Africa's Striped Horse" (my favorite zoo animal since I was little) for the first and "The Enchanted Typewriter" for the second.
I have always considered myself a fairly good typer since I grew up with good computer classes. I loved my teacher, Mrs. Fellers. As a staff kid I always got to school early in the mornings, and in exchange for turning on and sanitizing all of her computers, she would allow me to practice my typing on the kid-friendly programs of the late 90s. I don't remember much about it, just that it was like a video game with characters like alien creatures. When another teacher replaced her when she retired, I lost my enthusiasm for putting in this extra effort every morning since I didn't have such a relationship with the guy and also he got rid of the fun typing games that got students enthused about enhancing their typing skills! Really a bummer. I also used to be an avid AIM and MSN Messenger user in the 2000's, so some of my speed and accuracy might stem back to this too.
(Image Souce: Screenshot by me. Keyhero)
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