Student in information technology.
Interested in medical it and smart home.
"Adapt what it usefull, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own"
I'm now only a year away from my bachelor and yet, started learning touch-typing only two months ago.
I never learned it at school and for some reason never had the motivation to do something about it myself. It was kind of like eating Asian cuisine with sticks - the way I did it was not the official and most efficient way, but it seemed to work for me.
Until at some point I came to the conclusion that, as a person that is planning to get more into software development, I simply have to acquire that skill at some point. Might as well be now.
So I started taking some online-classes and boy: my writing became frustratingly slow at that time. Re-learning something is truly a lot more difficult than learning something from scratch.
Eventually I became faster with time. I am still in the learning process. Yet my writing speed has hugely improved even now. Also, I'm more convenient with hitting the right keys.
What I found out as well is that the right or wrong keyboard can make a huge difference!
Great post, I can definetely relate!
I'm now only a year away from my bachelor and yet, started learning touch-typing only two months ago.
I never learned it at school and for some reason never had the motivation to do something about it myself. It was kind of like eating Asian cuisine with sticks - the way I did it was not the official and most efficient way, but it seemed to work for me.
Until at some point I came to the conclusion that, as a person that is planning to get more into software development, I simply have to acquire that skill at some point. Might as well be now.
So I started taking some online-classes and boy: my writing became frustratingly slow at that time. Re-learning something is truly a lot more difficult than learning something from scratch.
Eventually I became faster with time. I am still in the learning process. Yet my writing speed has hugely improved even now. Also, I'm more convenient with hitting the right keys.
What I found out as well is that the right or wrong keyboard can make a huge difference!
Keep it up. It's hard but you will benefit from it every day for the rest of your life (: