05-08-2025, 03:37 AM
This typing trainer takes me back to the days when I first learned to type on my father’s old mechanical typewriter. The keys were stiff and made a loud clacking sound with every press. My little fingers struggled to hit certain letters—especially 'a', 'q', 'z', and 'p'—so the words I typed often came out missing those characters. Sometimes I ended up with hilarious results like “inele” instead of “pineapple” or “retzel” instead of “pretzel.”
My typing tutor would cover my eyes with a black cloth so I had to type without looking, relying purely on muscle memory to find each key. I can still remember the classic pangram, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” which I typed line after line across entire pages to practice.
I really miss those days—when the rhythmic clatter of mechanical typewriters filled the air, and they were still as a standard fixture in nearly every office.
My typing tutor would cover my eyes with a black cloth so I had to type without looking, relying purely on muscle memory to find each key. I can still remember the classic pangram, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” which I typed line after line across entire pages to practice.
I really miss those days—when the rhythmic clatter of mechanical typewriters filled the air, and they were still as a standard fixture in nearly every office.