One vs. two spaces

[Terisse]

I actually do remember having it taught to me in my word processing class (easy grade in an easy class) and I still never did it. That, and even with slowly failing eyesight, I have no problem at all with monospace fonts, reading, or otherwise.

Then again, I used to have an ancient typewriter that I would actually do reports on when someone else was using the PC. It far too much fun for my teacher to realize that I was using some archaic method.

[Azisien]

I was taught on two spaces. But that's old news man!

The only interesting facet I have in regards to typing is that my ability to type was completely self-taught. So I only type with my two index fingers, and thumb the space bar. Apparently you're taught to use all of your fingers? Crazy!

Despite my 6-finger deficit, I still maintain speeds of 80-90wpm. Such a drop from my mudding days.

[PyrosNine]

I used my mom's typewriter long before we ever had a PC. And in my typing class, they told me to do the double space thing, but I forgot why so I stopped doing it. Good to be reminded that what I was told to do was useless, becuase I forgot to do it!

It's like skipping classes when you don't know it was MLK day! (which I totally did)

[phil_]

I got a hunch as to why those of us who were taught to double-space after sentences but no longer double-space after sentences forgot about double-spacing after sentences. Microsoft Word used to auto-correct single spaces after a sentence into double-spaces. Bam.

[Doc ock rokc]

I was taught this intially because one of my teachers actually made me use a old type writer in one of my classes in order to decipher what I was writing. I was thought this when I was placed in-front of a computer and when I was writing's in elementary school. and when they sent me to another elementary school they basically said,"Fuck that." So Bob I was like you when I first learned and still double space in my handwriting as it still is like a Monospaced font

Originally Posted by Azisien

The only interesting facet I have in regards to typing is that my ability to type was completely self-taught. So I only type with my two index fingers, and thumb the space bar. Apparently you're taught to use all of your fingers? Crazy!

Despite my 6-finger deficit, I still maintain speeds of 80-90wpm. Such a drop from my mudding days.

Thats cool I had a friend type like you. he outpaced a teacher in a typing test to earn the right to do it.
I personally learned to type onehanded and can keep a rather steady pace of 40 wpm with just one hand.

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by Doc ock rokc

I personally learned to type onehanded and can keep a rather steady pace of 40 wpm with just one hand.

I was really big into cybersex.

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[Doc ock rokc]

actually its because when I first learned to type was just after My brother accidentally slammed a car door on my left hand cracking some bones and making typing with two hands a agonizing process

[Specterbane]

Two spaces would just be too pretentious for me. I remember being taught that in grade school and the only teacher that ever took off for it was kind of a bitch, hence my apathy.

Even being taught typing in school I didn't actually learn to type quickly till I started IMing people WITHOUT using any short-hand/text speak. (seriously I never bothered to learn it, to this day I still have to look up internet acronyms like IMHO and IIRC)

[tacticslion]

Me, I was taught double-spacing and often do from habit, but IMing, certain college classes (penalizing double spacing), other personal experiments, and dyslexia have allowed me the freedom to do as I please much of the time. It's not so much that it's pretentious, but rather serves a similar purpose to paragraph breaks. Sure, one can read grammar and punctuation (which are important to bring out the proper emotion!) but the double-space helps quickly recognize the end of a thought. Also, yeah, WORD - at least mine - auto-corrects to double-space when I only type one.

Originally Posted by Fenris

I hear you. I'm the same way-(un)fortunately NPF automatically removes the double space for some technical reason I read once but wasn't intrigued enough to commit to memory.

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

I posted about why this happens anywhere on the Internet, Fenris, but I don't currently feel like browsing my own post history. Long story short extra whitespace isn't rendered in browsers unless you force it to be.

e: I just took like 20 minutes and didn't find the thread I was thinking of, and apathy has set in.

This, right here, is the reason it's impossible to make good D&D (tm) charts on this site! Gah! WHY CAN'T I MAKE THEM LOOK PRETTY LIKE THEY DO IN MY HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAD?!

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

For reference, how many of you actually ever have used a typewriter? Or how about just early-as-shit word processors (even before Word Perfect on DOS)?

That'd be me, on both accounts. 90's-era former-Soviet Union didn't have much great advanced tech. Most of my friends (when we were stateside) had these neato-looking word processors, of which I was always jealous.

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Best thing ever was it had an erase key which would take back a letter if you hit it fast enough. AMAZING.

Truer words, Smarty, truer words...

Originally Posted by Sithdarth

...I was taught cursive we were instructed to do all writing ever in cursive. ... To this day it takes considerable effort to print. Although my cursive has evolved to incorporate the odd print character here or there. It depends on several different parameters if a particular character ends up being print or not. It's almost unpredictable.

I know, right? It's weird how the two blend sometimes. Mine is kind of the opposite of yours - mostly-but-not-quite print (much to my mother's chagrin) with an occasionally weirdly added cursive word (like the word "of" - it's darn near impossible not to write that one in cursive, for some reason). I was actually rather amazed several months back when, for the first time in years, I forced myself to write in cursive-only (teaching kids to do it, sadly, and forced to tell them it's the only way) and it came out surprisingly well. I had thought I'd shed the last vestiges of the formerly-ingrained talent in college. It's still slower than normal writing, but I'm picking up speed surprisingly quickly. Like riding a bike, I guess.

Originally Posted by Sithdarth

Also, now that you guys have made me think about how I type I realize that somehow I learned how to type without looking at my fingers and I have no idea when that happened. But being aware of it is now messing with my ability to do it.

Just concentrate on not thinking about it and it'll be great again! Also, don't think about or visualize pink elephants! Just focus hard and I'm sure it'll work!

Originally Posted by Azisien

The only interesting facet I have in regards to typing is that my ability to type was completely self-taught. So I only type with my two index fingers, and thumb the space bar. Apparently you're taught to use all of your fingers? Crazy!

Despite my 6-finger deficit, I still maintain speeds of 80-90wpm. Such a drop from my mudding days.

This is actually like my wife. "Hunt and peck" some friends used to call it (though she really doesn't "hunt", as she knows were the keys are). She's quite good at it, but I've had a dilly of a time convincing her she'd be even faster if she only learned the proper configurations. Or rather, she believes me, but doesn't bother.

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[Raiden]

I was taught two spaces at the end of every sentence, and it is so ingrained into my typing and writing that I will go back and make sure there are two spaces after a sentence. And I mean for any occasion. I do it for IMs, for papers, for quick notes, for texting, hell I'm doing it right now. If I even considered giving only one space at the end of my sentence in grade school I would have had a hell thrown upon me the likes of which hadn't been seen since Timmy ate the glue in class.

Kids today, too impatient to even type an extra space after a sentence. Your thumb is already there pressing the button for one space, just do it again. Hell, I don't even think about my thumb anymore, it presses the spacebar on its own. You kids just need to train your thumb better.