Is Typing a Necessary Skill?

cloudwilliam asks: "The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting article on how many schools have stopped teaching touch-typing as a necessary office skill and are now often saying that basic computer skills are more important. I'd agree with the latter, but what about typing? I learned to type on an IBM Selectric II (and still own one, as a matter of fact) in the mid-1980s, and the last time I was tested, touch-typed at around 60 wpm. Is this an obsolete skill? With handwriting and voice recognition technologies, is using a QWERTY keyboard with nine out of ten fingers something worth knowing anymore?"

Comments

Re:Typing IS a necessary computer skill

[Zaranne]

Sorry, just being a girl...you know, all that sensitive crap we do...

Re:what about when you use a different layout

[blackest_k]

It seems slashdot will not allow me to list non English letters in a post.
Is this a bug or a feature? although incidentally windows can be quite broken in displaying non english letters.