Bill Simmons' typing skills

He was writing for the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

 

I think he moved out there because he was working on the Jimmy Kimmel show.

Back to typing, my handwriting was so bad, I had to take a typing course on an electric typewriter in eighth grade, even though the rest of the class was juniors and seniors. I didn't type that well, primarily because the teacher said my age. My hands weren't as big as the older kids.

Now, I still type with all the fingers, and can do about 70 words per minute.

 

My first editor typed with two fingers, smoked cigarettes and drank coffee while peering over his old Royal through an office window into our tiny newsroom.

When he typed it sounded like a machine gun with a little bell attached. It was wonderful to be part of that.

I don't care if someone types with their big toe while standing on their head in pudding. Be a good journalist and write a good story. That's it.

 

I know a lot of reporters who use two fingers. And a lot of guys online type fast with one hand.

 

Sirs, Madames,

Until I was forty I was one-fingered and just spaced-and-capped with my left hand. But I got a manual typewriter for my sixth birthday and was as fast as you could be with a single digit. And because I learned on a manual I pounded the keys. I drew a crowd for the typing test in J school, passed with over 40 words pretty easily. It was like watching Ali work the speed bag. I've mellowed. With soft-touch computer keyboards I tried typing with both index fingers. What I could do with two fingers that I couldn't do with one (I think) is touch type--not terribly accurately but pretty close, good enough to type in the dark or look away.

o-<

 

"But I got a manual typewriter
for my sixth birthday..."

WTF

I have to ask...

Is this the gift you requested, and if so, why?

 

Knowing your prodigious output, this ranks as the single most-shocking revelation I've read here.

Oh, and I learned on a manual so I hunt and peck. Loudly. I broke two electronic typewriters writing my senior finals papers, and have trashed keyboards uncountable since then. However, chronic split fingertips in winter have led to an increased use of the middle fingers.

 

Sirs, Madames,

Yeah, it was a request. I worked my way onto the grade 2 reader in kindergarten. In Grade 1 I started handing in typewritten assignments. As a result of typing almost exclusively I can't actually write script ... had to try it up to Grade 8 but I packed it after that. Just typing or printing. (Some here might have seen my micro scrawl, it's smaller than the type on the screen and was a real headache to those marking my exams).

o-<

 

Thanks

If it makes you feel better, consider yourself ahead of the times because script is no longer taught in many school divisions.