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Having a booth for a PC game at conventions used to be difficult because people were not familiar with keyboard and mouse controls. If you weren't prepared for this you basically had to quickly add controller support somehow and send someone from your team to the next electric store and to buy a bunch of controllers.

Nowadays, though? Game convention visitors these days barely know how to hold a controller. They keep poking at the screens, hoping something happens. It's a frustrating experience for indie devs sometimes.

So yeah I'm not surprised when people look at keyboards like they're some kind of ancient slate.

Fyi, typing games are weirdly making a comeback on steam and I'm here for it

To make it really easy to know where U and H are, because you never want to be unable to type uhhhhh without looking at the keyboard

This comment has been brought to you by Dvorak, it would be great if it were more supported

As Mavis Beacon gently weeps...

As my 13yo would say, "why? I can just voice to text"

The bumps exist so you can have an existential doubt of when will they wear out. Apparently my current keyboard was a better choice than I thought at first.

A lot of schools don't because there isn't a standardized program for teaching it. I know we used a very tough typing game for when we were taught. Not sure if I was slower on the uptake but I worked real hard to get good at touch typing.

I'm in my mid-20s, and I taught myself to type using only my index and middle fingers (plus thumb for space bar). Had about 80 wpm, but made quite a few errors.

A few years ago, I swapped to Colemak and took that opportunity to finally learn to touch-type. Now I'm at 95 wpm with much better accuracy, and I don't need to look anymore. Feels way more comfortable to type too.

On mobile, I still use QWERTY and type with my thumbs. I can do that reasonably well with my eyes closed, considering the complete lack of tactile feedback.

Turner orr ep3ll chk3cker and typed this sentence with my eyrs floser. ("Turned off spell checker and typed this sentence with my eyes closed.")

I was never told, but I always assumed it was to orient yourself without looking, and that's where the index fingers go when hands are resting on the keyboard.

Something tells me that even if they taught typing, whoever's asking that question wouldn't have paid attention in that class anyway.

... or they know perfectly well and this is just another shitty clickbait post to generate engagement.

Why learn typing? Just let the Ai do it! Pfft!

/s

I need a new keyboard. Those little nubs are worn off mine and I'm constantly putting my fingers on the wrong keys unless I keep looking down at it.

That's the nipples. You rub em and the keyboards like 'hey fj r over here!'

Tbf, I very rarely type with perfect form like that. Maybe for short bursts when I'm doing an assignment but in like every other case I keep my right hand on the mouse and do any hot keys with just my left hand. Granted thats mainly a gaming thing but also in like GIMP or blender