{"id":78,"date":"2008-02-25T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T05:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-02-25T23:59:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T05:59:20","slug":"how-to-learn-to-type-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/how-to-learn-to-type-better\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Learn To Type Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of a typist, though I am finally going to make the effort to get better at typing. I was using Mavis Beacon&#8217;s typing course in 2001, but once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TripInsuranceStore.com<\/a> took off, it seems like I haven&#8217;t had the time to learn to type. Truth be told, I have had the time, but this hasn&#8217;t been a priority (it was never even on my list).<\/p>\n<p>Now my 10 year old&#8217;s learning typing in school and he&#8217;s at 35 wpm. I, on the other hand, just took a typing test and, without looking at the keys when I type (as I&#8217;m doing right now), I&#8217;m at 11 wpm with 12 errors which means my &#8220;calculated speed&#8221; is 0!<\/p>\n<p>The website they use at his school is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freetypinggame.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FreeTypingGame.net<\/a>. It&#8217;s easy to use and if you need to get better at typing, it&#8217;s a good place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of a typist, though I am finally going to make the effort to get better at typing. I was using Mavis Beacon&#8217;s typing course in 2001, but once TripInsuranceStore.com took off, it seems like I haven&#8217;t had the time to learn to type. Truth be told, I have had the time, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpful-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}