I wonder if its a generational thing.
In high school we took typing class. We learned to set the margins and tabs and what the difference between line space and carriage return was. But we never really learned to type because that would have required practice and we were going to college and were going to get good jobs were we'd have secretaries to type for us.
In college we had to type term papers. I bought a small portable manual typewriter and hunted and pecked the papers out. It took days. If you made a mistake too large to fix with White Out™, you'd have to retype the whole page.
For many years at work I wrote by hand (and my profession owns the reputation for having the worst handwriting) but now we now use an electronic medical record (EMR) and I have to type. But it's better than the old college days. Thank God for copy-and-paste, spell-check and an auto-type feature that lets me dump in pre-typed text.
Maybe that's why I feel its nice to hold a pen in hand and jot down notes and diagrams.
hmm. I'm only 26, a youngun, but university is the first time i've ever had the option of typing out assignments. Prior to this, absolutely everything was hand written. The concept of a computer in the classroom at school was a mind****. I bought a dell laptop when i was about 16 for school, and it became nothing more than a game and media device. It had absolutely no place in the classroom. even today though, while i have to type my assignments, all exams are pen and paper, so thankfully i've had a year of digital note taking to keep my handwriting in check. Other class mates really struggled as they havn't written more than a shopping list in the past 1-2 years.
I love doing anything with my hands, why being a fish monger and butcher was my favourite job to date, as such i also just love writing. but if i need to bash out a paragraph, it makes little sense for me to spend 5 times the time writing it out on the surface instead of just typing it out in a minute or two.