The benefit of this method is that this is how typing has been taught for over a century. The drawback is that youll have to trudge through nearly 90 lessons before you begin typing natural language.

Learning a simple skillset such as speed typing can dramatically improve other vital life spheres, including time management and prioritization.

After that, you’re pretty much set. You can take an online tutorial to learn how to use speech recognition (I didn’t bother), or you can just dive in and start dictating.

20 years ago, competitive typing became all the rage in the school computer lab thanks to sessions of edutainment favorite Type to Learn.

On board are 10 laptops lined up in a neat row, ready for students to come and learn typing, computer and digital literacy skills after their regular lessons.