http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/06/12/two-in-five-japanese-basically-touch-type/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:02:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/06/12/two-in-five-japanese-basically-touch-type/#comment-24035 Deas Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:20:27 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/06/12/two-in-five-japanese-basically-touch-type/#comment-24035 I touch type with a mix of self-learned movements and those that were drilled into me in a mandatory keyboarding class from high school. That was the biggest waste of time ever. EVER. But I digress. I can touch type quickly enough to beat a Japanese fellow I was playing in the game "Typing of the Dead" in an arcade in Hiroshima. I couldn't understand what I was typing, but my romaji input skills blew his away. He was ashamed. I was bewildered. The zombies? They were dead. Good times. I touch type with a mix of self-learned movements and those that were drilled into me in a mandatory keyboarding class from high school. That was the biggest waste of time ever. EVER. But I digress. I can touch type quickly enough to beat a Japanese fellow I was playing in the game “Typing of the Dead” in an arcade in Hiroshima. I couldn’t understand what I was typing, but my romaji input skills blew his away. He was ashamed. I was bewildered. The zombies? They were dead. Good times.

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