Very often I’m glad that my mom made me take type-writing class back in High School(?) in the 70’s. I bet it was only last week I was thinking about it.
Of course - the fact that she typed all of my papers was surely a factor.
In college we would help people out with several of us typing while some guy was handwriting his paper. We figured out that if each of us took something like 1.5 pages of handwriting it would fit on one page typed. We would all be typing different sections at the same time and then combine the pages!!
I began high school in 1969. Back in that time, very few young guys could foresee a future in which they'd need that skill. I wasn't any different, and never thought twice about learning to type.
I don't think any of us ever imagined a day would come when everyone on the planet typed.
I also took a typing class in high school in the early 70’s.
Me and my buddies sat in the back of the class and typed up the lyrics to Frank Zappa songs during the class most of the time.