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MO_Thoughts2 says,

My typing teacher was nice but kinda scary. Our manual typewriters had no letters on the keys. If the teacher caught you looking down at your fingers, you got "sheeted". She had sheets with head holes cut in them. You had to walk up the the front of the class, pick your sheet (she had a few different colors & patterns), put it on at the front of the class, do the walk of shame back to your desk, then drape the sheet over the typewriter so you couldn't see your hands and the keys. But we learned to touch type quickly and accurately. :-)

mzejay says,

Wow, that sounds serious. We had electric typewriters and you got in trouble for using the correction function.

Dragonflower says,

Wow MO, that sounds awful. We had manual typewriters too, without letters. We got one IBM selectric at the end of the year and the fastest typist got to use it in front of the class. That was me. I put the paper in and hit the return key to advance it, but we were so strong from typing on those darn manual typewriters, I hit the return key too hard and my paper went flying out of the typewriter and flew around the room.

Everyone laughed so hard, I got sent back to manual typing for disrupting the class.