I am starting to do more command line stuff after installing Ubuntu on my laptop and have been reflecting on my tuypnig sjkills.
I did one day of typing class before having to drop it back in about '86. Had a typing tutor program on my C64 that a couple buddies and I worked on for a bit, but never really took it to the advanced level. I am really close to being fully touch typing on simple words and sentences, but for more complicated commands I am still somewhat hopeless. So I was wondering how others are. Do you have mad skills such that a line like:
grep $x error_log | wc -l | tr -d '\n'; echo " : $x"; done | sort +2 -rn |
is a breeze? How did you develop the ability to knock out symbols? Did it just take practice or did you do something special to develop it?
For those like me who struggle, do you want to be faster, or are you satisfied with your mediocrity? I want to be better, but don't think I have the discipline to systematically improve.
I did one day of typing class before having to drop it back in about '86. Had a typing tutor program on my C64 that a couple buddies and I worked on for a bit, but never really took it to the advanced level. I am really close to being fully touch typing on simple words and sentences, but for more complicated commands I am still somewhat hopeless. So I was wondering how others are. Do you have mad skills such that a line like:
grep $x error_log | wc -l | tr -d '\n'; echo " : $x"; done | sort +2 -rn |
is a breeze? How did you develop the ability to knock out symbols? Did it just take practice or did you do something special to develop it?
For those like me who struggle, do you want to be faster, or are you satisfied with your mediocrity? I want to be better, but don't think I have the discipline to systematically improve.