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When I was in middle school we had these awful typing classes. What I would do is copy paste lines of 0's and 1's to make a page of "binary code" then I'd print a few copies from a random printer in the room. The teacher would see it, think the printer was malfunctioning and turn it off. I'd do this throughout the class until every printer was switched off. Because printing the page of what we typed was part of the lesson once all the printers 'stopped working', the lesson was over and the only thing we could do was sit around and play Stunt Copter until the end of class.


In our typing class, the teacher would give us each a floppy that stored our progress, averages, and what typing tests we were working on. I got tired of doing the tests (I was practicing typing at home on my own), and I wanted to streamline the process. So I looked on the floppy, and found that while the file with your progress and average scores was stored in some kind of program specific encoding, the files that contained the typing tests chosen by the teacher for that day were text files. So before each test, I would quickly open the file in notepad and change the text to be just the letter "j" and nothing else. The program would start timing you when you typed the first letter and stop timing when you reached the last letter, so as soon as I hit "j" it would instantly register 120 words per minute, since that was the fastest it could measure.

Needless to say, the teacher was curious as to why I started getting 120 wpm on every test, so when she asked me I figure I'd just tell her the truth, and explained how I editted the file. She thought it was funny and creative, and (after I demonstrated that I really was learning how to type anyway) just gave me an A in the class.


You are my hero. We hated typing class, particularly because they had these silly keyboard blockers that forced you to touch type.




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