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by lanstin 957 days ago
Before I was able to get a job with computers, I had jobs as typists. I had one job typing (on paper with a typewriter) trust documents for banks. You had to produce the entire page without any errors, no whiteout or the ink-lifting correction stuff.

It was more discipline than other typing jobs, but paid off. I also never think about typing unless I'm having to recreate emacs or vi commands on a weird touch-screen keyboard or that time I learned Dvorak for a while.

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Learning Vi really blew my mind in regards to typing. Suddenly keystrokes weren’t just characters, they were everything.