/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4918819]

Be honest, did she really help you to get better at typing?

[Anonymous No.4918829]

>JRPG thread

[Anonymous No.4918832]

i had mario teaches typing and no, i was more interested in what mario was doing than actual learning. im not bad at typing but its mostly because ive been doing it for 25 years rather than actual technique

[Anonymous No.4918849]

No, I got good enough to beat ASDF JKL; scum just from typing on message boards and playing games.

[Anonymous No.4918851]

Mavis Beacon Teaches Sexting

[Anonymous No.4918856]

Yes, I should redownload this

[Anonymous No.4918903]

>>4918829

[Anonymous No.4918938]

>>4918849
this. I type at over 100 wpm with a very unconventional typing position.
home keys are propoganda

[Anonymous No.4919085]

>>4918819
Not even the slightest. This is what I got busy with when I was like four.

>>4918938
I can hit ~95 and I type like a pianist moving his hands around often enough and not even staying on the home row. But, eh home key typers are still faster. The fastest of them generally sit around 150--200WPM. Dvorak fastest typers are like 200-230. 100WPM is 66% of a slower fast typist.

I'm fine with typing just a tad slower than you myself, but let's not pretend we couldn't be potentially that much faster if learned to type properly.

[Anonymous No.4919105]

I don't properly 10-finger because I like to have stretching integrated into my typing. It feels icky not having my fingers travel. Can still type blind faster than most.

[Anonymous No.4919129]

I will never not read Beavis Macon for some reason.

[Anonymous No.4919158]

>>4918819
Yes.
But that was because typing class was a mandatory daily class when I was in 2nd grade. I left that year able to type and typing only got better since then with practice. In highschool we had another basic life-skills shit type class, how to build a resume, how to look for a job, shit like that, and typing was there. I was, and still am, amazed at how bad some people are at typing. Here's a question for you "home row is a lie" types in this thread. Do you guys have to look down and see what you're typing to type correctly? Genuinely curious. That's another thing I get surprised at. Stupid "type *insert bullshit here* without looking at your keyboard" posts only to find everybody types garbage.
10-Key though I had to learn on my own at work. I ended up with a job where it was about 90% typing numbers and we had very strict requirements. Learned that shit real quick because I didn't want to get fired.

[Anonymous No.4919314]

>>4919105
>10-finger
Where do the other 7 go?

[Anonymous No.4919316]

>>4919158
I didn't even try during typing lessons because there was no height adjustment for the chair or keyboard. I had a PC at home since 1992 so I didn't need to learn there.

[Anonymous No.4919321]

>>4918819
Never heard of her until youtube.

[Anonymous No.4919328]

>no r34 of her and Carmen Sandiego

What's even the point of the internet

[Anonymous No.4919334]

>>4918819
>mavis beacon never existed and was a character created for marketing purposes
why the fuck

[Anonymous No.4919375]

Based Spooky taught me what I needed to know and I helped him chase those fucking normies out of his house

[Anonymous No.4919389]

>>4918819
>Mavis Beacon will never be in Smash Bros

kill me

[Anonymous No.4919392]

>>4918819

No I was playing something else. My mom who's a secretary was really psychotically good at this game.

[Anonymous No.4919751]

>>4919085
honestly I'm not sure if I could.
I tried learning the home row several times at a young age and it just felt cramped and I could never get the hang of using my pinky and ring finger to type letters. With the way I type, I use the ring finger for enter and backspace, and my pinky for ctrl and shift.
I actually only use 2 fingers on each hand to type the letters, and get about 105 wpm consistantly. I just dont have the ring/pinky finger coordination that it requires, which I've noticed when playing instruments as well

[Anonymous No.4919756]

>>4919389
She's not even in real life

[Anonymous No.4919781]

Everything I learned about typing I learned from instant messaging people, posting on forums, and chatting in video games. One time in junior high I had a teacher who was slow as shit at typing tell me I was typing wrong because I wasn't keeping my fingers on the home row, still makes me mad to this day.

[Anonymous No.4919810]

The nonsense letter typing in the first few stages of Mavis Beacon and other typing programs put me off so hard as a kid I became a worse typer than I would have been otherwise. Eventually I learned to touch type by shotposting.

[Anonymous No.4919892]

>>4918849
This. The best typing habits are learned while arguing on the internet, preferably while drunk. The downside is you will develop horrible grammar habits.

[Anonymous No.4919902]

I'm only here because back in the 90s I wanted to fuck an aunt viv lookin ass bitch.

TIME TO FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!


IT'S TImE FOR FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCJK!

[Anonymous No.4919925]

>>4919158
>Here's a question for you "home row is a lie" types in this thread. Do you guys have to look down and see what you're typing to type correctly?
no.

[Anonymous No.4920052]

>>4918819
I learned how to type by entering cheats in Starcraft and talking to people in CS 1.3 to 1.6. By the time I took a "keyboarding" class in grade 10 in 2003/2004 I was already good enough lol..

[Anonymous No.4920086]

is it fapworthy or does she just teach typing asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.4920353]

[Anonymous No.4920393]

>>4918819
Yeah, but I would've got good no matter what since I live on the computer. I just started working at an auto parts store, the first day I looked up "radiator" and typed it so fast my supervisor said "WOAH!" and now they ask me computer questions, because, you know, I type fast.

[Anonymous No.4920496]

>>4918819
Mavis Beacon isn't even a real person.

[Anonymous No.4920510]

>Typing games
Shit like this was always slow paced and it wasn't until long after mandatory typing classes that I learned how to touch type on my own. Worst typing class was 6th grade typing class with microtype, where the teacher was a huge cunt and forced everyone to put a rubber keyboard cover on our keyboards so "You can learn not to look at the keys", a valuable skill, though lots of us were still very much typing novices, so all of us were confused as fuck and made many errors... also of course those that were ahead got special treatment and got to either take that shit off or have the virtual keyboard up on screen... some of us literally got through that shit faster with a mouse and the Virtual keyboard.
Hate to talk about bad typing class memories, but then again, I think we all have some weird ass typing class memories

[Anonymous No.4920726]

>>4919334
so you can't find out about her dark past

[Anonymous No.4921163]

>>4919085
>Have severe ADHD.
>Type at ~130wpm when writing normally.
>When taking a typing test it immediately drops to ~80wpm.
Feels bad.

[Anonymous No.4921485]

Who the fuck is Mavis Beacon?

No really what was the point of some black woman who barely even does anything in this "game".

[Anonymous No.4921486]

wait, Mavis Beacon was a character? I had only heard the title of this before and assumed it was the name of the company that made it

[Anonymous No.4921493]

>>4921485
>>4921486
She was a made up character who was supposedly a champion typist, much like the Chess master from Mindscape's other title. In reality, she was some foreign person they photographed for the first game and for the next couple of games, it was generic black ladies. In other words, Mavis Beacon isn't a real person.

[Anonymous No.4921806]

>>4921493
They know that.
They're saying "how is this a character/I didn't realize it was one." Mavis is so incidental you could just as easily call it Barkley Shut Up and Jam Typing.

[Anonymous No.4922579]

I learned to type by shit posting on Shining Force Central forums long enough.

[Anonymous No.4922649]

>>4918819
No. She uses the inferior qwerty layout instead of the superior dvorak layout.

[Anonymous No.4922667]

>>4919810
>I learned to touch type by shotposting.
Spiked the ball on the 1 yard line.

[Anonymous No.4922913]

>>4918819
Nah. The idea of "home keys" is a myth that needs to die a horrible death. You get faster at typing with practical experience, and the best form of training comes from dictation since you never know what's coming up next. People need to learn that the individual needs of the typist need to be realized and conformed to. For instance, I have fairly small hands so I need to use my pinky to hit the shift key.

[Anonymous No.4922918]

>>4919158
>Do you guys have to look down and see what you're typing to type correctly? Genuinely curious
No, I just put my thumb on the keyboard and I know exactly where everything is. In fact, this keyboard is an old mechanical one and the letters have worn away, making it unusable to anyone who has not memorized the layout.

[Anonymous No.4922976]

Was always focused on other things.

[Anonymous No.4923060]

>>4918819
No but playing team fortress back in the day did. You either typed fast or got dead.

Dialup sucked. I remember sniping and you had to lead your target by like 3 or 4 seconds ahead to hit them. You would shoot like 15 feet in front of them for it to hit a moving target.

[Anonymous No.4923572]

>>4919810
This, I got better at typing through experience and without educational software, it's best that people find the stances that are good for themselves, as long as they're not 2 finger typist shitlords in adulthood

[Anonymous No.4923721]

Learned it during a summer course before high school and continued practicing in hs computer classes. One of my brainlet friends got extremely angry that I was able to touch type even though it was a common skill and nothing special.

[Anonymous No.4923847]

>>4921485
>>4921486
>>4921493
LGR had a great episode on the origins of Mavis Beacon. Pic related is the original Mavis Beacon model.

[Anonymous No.4923859]

>>4919392

I got gud at typing because of this game too, anon. It's really good.

[Anonymous No.4926339]

Yes, typing games can improve, given enough time, typing proficiency. Even the foreign language ones.