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And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined.

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[Above a bar graph:]
11th-grade activities:
[The y-axis is labeled:]
Usefulness to career success
[Above the x-axis are two small bars and one huge bar. Below the x-axis, each bar is labeled:]
900 hours of classes
400 hours of homework
One weekend messing with Perl

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My most useful skill from primary and secondary school has actually been a typing class in middle school on what I think was an IBM Selectric typewriter (or clone of it).

I type every day both on the job and off the job. Granted, I'm a basic QWERTY Bitch® who hasn't played around with other formats but I type fast enough that my coworkers frequently comment on how fast I type. Ain't nobody got time to wait for your fingers to catch up with your thought when trying to type input into a computer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Did you ever do one of those typing speed tests? I'm curious what kind of words-per-minute speed is fast enough for coworkers to comment on it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did one just now. It isn't the fastest that I've done but I'm also on a different-than-normal keyboard (an ortholinear split mechanical keyboard).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Bah!!! Beginners numbers...

I'll have you know I barely passed typing class on one of those IBM ball electric typewriters at 31wpm.

On the IBM computers with word perfect 5.1 from the 5.25' floppy. I was much faster... 32wpm.

Then I got ulnar nerve damage from a terrible bicycle accident in Europe aka.. I fell off.. and now I average 20wpm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Damn dude, I'm not a slow typer but 91 words per minute is blistering fast. Gave it a go on my laptop keyboard with the benchmark test (2 minutes) and ended at 64WPM with only one typo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I type around 100-120 wpm (before errors) and often get comments. Realistically I'm a bit a slower because I have to go back and fix some errors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Damn, you're almost twice as fast as me, and I'm not exactly slow, either! Definitely comment-worthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's more than double the score I got from my highest score when doing a speed test on my phone, which I know is faster for me than just using a computer keyboard.