Typing Mugs

'Your training will be the next five minutes watching my fingers move at the speed of light.'

'Obviously, if you look for mistakes you'll find some!'

'In this case I'm not sure 'Fat Finger Syndrome' is a design problem.'

"This is fine, General, but how are your typing skills?"

Penny got carpal tunnel, and had to hunt and peck.

'Data entry has always been my dream.' -

'Sorry about some of the punctuation -- I haven't learned the top row of the keyboard yet.'

'You say you type 80 words a minute ... Actually, that's not at all important...!'

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

'Why is it when you hit two keys by mistake, the one you don't want appears on the screen?'

'Where's the fine print key?'

"Look, it's either 50 words a minute - or 5, if you want them spelt correctly!"

Data Entry Marathon

'How many words a minute do you type?' - 'Big ones or little ones?'

'You must have a lot of untapped potential.'

The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy red fox.

"Sorry, but while typing up that report, I had this desire to walk across the keyboard."

'We don't know what the final result will look like, but the movie rights have already been optioned.'

"Hey, I'm thirsty. I need a drink. A drink and a liverwurst sandwich. Hey, how about a sandwich and a beer down at Gallagher's, then we can go shoot some pool? Or maybe take in a movie. Hey, I'm talking to you."

Ask Sadie. Actual questions from actual readers! Celestial Sadie, In the Western sky after sunset, Jupitor can be seen nearly aligned with Venus. What do you make of this? R. Yates. Excellent question. That reminds me of a long lost civilization, in which there was no such thing as a typo. Where no one ever hit the wrong key because they wrote letters by hand. Eventually, it became so obsessed with speed that it began typing everything, and so inconsiderate that it soon stopped bothering to proo

'Why the sudden interest in the way I type.'

Sales Secretary

The clickety clack of your office pc keyboard: 50c.

'Delete - delete - delete.'

Computer thinks as man pecks keyboard: Wow! And he says I'm slow!

"It's just one monkey at one typewriter, but we've given him an infinite need for validation."

I can type 500 words per minute.

Office Supplies/Secretary

No! I would not like to download a typing tutorial!

'Make sure that when you type this up, you leave the 'caps lock' button on.'

Man works late.

'No, boss, this isn't a secret code. My spell check is broken and this is what my typing actually looks like.'

Stereotyping

Secretary

Shorthand