Typing Proficiency Quotes

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

I'm really fortunate that I type 120 words a minute.

If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.

I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

All of the men on my staff can type.

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.