#TrueStory: I didn't learn to type until I was 20.

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @JenSquard

Totes magotes not even joking on this one.  We didn't get our first computer until I was like 14 or some junk.  I could type on it, and really frickin fast actually, just using my first two fingers of each hand.  I was way fast, like 50 words per minute!  I know that isn't legitimately fast, but it isn't bad for a two-fingered typer.  I always had to look at the keyboard to type, but it worked for me.  I even got through computer classes and stuff doing it...I don't know how, but I did.  My mom could type crazy fast and was a transcriptionist, but she couldn't convince me to do it right.

When I went to college I worked in the computer lab a lot, and it embarrassed the hell out of me that all of the students around me could type and I couldn't.  It felt like they were all listening to me crappy pecking and it was lame.  So I taught myself.  Instead of doing homework I played learn to type games.  I forced myself to retype the entire word if I got one letter wrong.  I was slow as hell, but I was doing it. 

A few months later I took a job as an office assistant, eventually became a transcriptionist and word processor, and within a few months of starting that I was able to type 120 words per minute.  DAMN!  I'm not quite as fast and accurate now since I'm not doing it quite as often, but I'm still around 100 wpm.  Just goes to show you can teach yourself anything at any time.  And embarrassment serves as an amazing motivator.