I had a typing class in early high school on a regular old typewriter. We had computers, but not enough for a whole class to learn typing.
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We had computers and the typing software made a beep with the PC speaker each time you made a mistake. The beeping summoned the evil teacher to torture you even more, e g. by covering hands and keyboard with a box.
Later in high school when we got computers, someone discovered that if you shuffle your feet on the carpet to build up static then touched the lock (remember when computers came with a set of keys?!) the computer would reset.
"It's not my fault Miss, the computer has reset! Can you help?". (This particular teacher was young, attractive, and sometimes didn't wear a bra).
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They're speed lines, they make you type faster.
Even if they would teach it, people are forgetting so much of what they learned at school.
I took typing in high school decades ago and it was probably the most useful thing I ever learned there
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I never learned to type. I have my own inefficient style
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.
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I learnt to use these... Completely without instruction. I move my hands as I type and alternate my fingers by default.
I've tried touch typing tutorials, where I'm meant to keep my fingers within a 'zone', however it was causing my hands to cramp once I reached 90 WPM.
These little indicators are lovely for touch typing though, even if I'm not doing it 'properly'. No repetitive strain injury in my weird way of typing without looking though!
Same here. The lines let me know where my fingers are in relation to the keyboard. Mavis Beacon would scream if she saw how I type, but I can do it at around 90wpm without looking.
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Why learn typing? Just let the Ai do it! Pfft!
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