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

People look at me like I'm taking crazy pills when I bring up The Typing of the Dead. Literally House of the Dead with a keyboard. You type or you die. It brings that Dark Souls energy to Mavis Beacon's doorstep.

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

They didn't teach typing when I was in school. I guess it's an assumed skill? Anywho, I still knew what those notches/bumps were for :3

Well... Ill explain for somebody who doesnt know:

Those are four your index finger. For the left and right hand.

So you can always have a base point for your typing without looking

Born in time to ask shitty questions on Twitter.

Born too late to JUST FUCKING GOOGLE IT.

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.

30 Years ago

F J F J F J .... G H G H G H ....

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.

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.

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

While we're at it: Fuck those ASUS designers that decided to put those nubbins on W key. Republic of gamers my ass, ⇥a21` you.

They don’t teach much of anything anymore. Schools are babysitters that give grades.

I took typing (on a typewriter) in eighth grade for the same reason I took Home Ec--that's where the girls were. I didn't know I'd actually be using the skill just a couple of years later.

My kid grew up in front of a computer, before such things were rightfully frowned upon. He taught himself to type, I've watched him do it. He uses the first two fingers of each hand and a thumb for the space bar. He types as fast as I do, which is to say, I've never been a particularly fast typist, but I get by okay.

What I never learned to do, because I don't do it much, is type with two thumbs on a phone.

Hopefully this is helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing#Home_row