![]() I'm what I would consider very proficient at typing and I can write well but I'm not held back by my typing skills, I'm slower to make sure I'm conveying the precise thought I want on paper (or really on screen). My father in law who's in his mid to late 60's was an exec who needed an old school secretary and still hunt and pecks but he's about the youngest guy I know like that. ![]() When I started professionally in the mid 90's there were a few old timers who still held onto them but basically anyone under 40-45 did that stuff themselves. ![]() This is a question purely out of curiosity: outside of something you think is a cool skill, what's the professional goal of typing ultra fast? Fast and proficient I get, but spending time and effort to get over 80/90/100 WPM's? Back in the old days secretaries were highly valued for typing speed because they took dictation and needed to transcribe it or they needed to take one printed document and type it onto another printed document because it was all hard copies and there was no copy/paste like today. ![]()
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