Long posts - I talk too much. My dad told me that when I was in elementary school. I don't think I've changed much.
The second part - I'm a fast typer. I used to be much more accurate with my words/spelling than I am these days. I still type fast, but I find myself making more spelling mistakes and using the wrong word way more often than I used to (like do instead of due, or two instead of to, stuff like that).
When I was in the 8th and 9th grade (last have of the 8th and first half of the 9th) we lived at Little Rock AFB in Jacksonville, AR. My best friend was a guy named David Dicker. David was crazy about girls. Don't get me wrong, all of liked girls but David could not stop talking to them, flirting with them, complimenting them, etc., etc., etc. Non-stop.
Anyway, taking typing in the 9th grade was David's idea. Why? You know why - girls. Typing, in 1971/72 was mostly a gir's class/course. Lot's of girls in typing (plus the teacher was blond and wore short dresses and was a good looking woman - her and the history teacher flirted all the time, we saw it) so that was a way for David to be around lots of girls, even if only for that hour of the school day.
We took typing. Only 3 or 4 guys in a class of right at 30 girls. I learned to type.
Another part of the story is that half way through the 9th grade we left Little Rock AFB to move to Chanute AFB, IL. Guess what? At Rantoul Township High School the only kids who could take typing were 11th and 12th grade students. So, here I am, a freshman, in a typing class full of junior and senior girls. Seventh heaven. Really. For those of us old enough to remember those times/years that was a period of "short skirts". Some of those memories will stay with me forever. And I learned to type, early. Been using it ever since.
Sorry if anyone is offended by my long posts, at times, but that's just me.