"They don't teach typing anymore"... for what, a job in the typing pool?? π
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People still do data entry. Mostly in India, but it still happens.
You know the episode of Bobs Burgers where Tina takes a typing class and does the hunt and peck but she can do it faster than the teacher can using the home row? It me.
Also if you want to type fast a keyboard layout that wasn't chosen based on its ability to prevent mechanical jams by slowing the typist is probably the way to go. eg Dvorac
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sad Mavis Beacon sounds
It's for locating your index fingers without looking when you do ten-finger typing.
I remember learning this about 40 years ago on a fully mechanical typewriter in school...
Or they are really old. I have an old PS2 keyboard that doesn't have them.
They were a feature on typewriter keyboards back before personal computers were even a thing, so I think it's probably just that Sony didn't bother to put them on that specific keyboard.
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I had a PC/Typing class in school. I never ended up using it. I basically learned the way I type from playing WoW and other online games with text chats. I mostly use my left hand for typing and occasionally use my right for some keys briefly.
Iβm sure if I took a typing speed test I wouldnβt be as fast as someone using the home keys, but itβs worked well enough for me.
I grew up in an era of sneaking into the living room to use the family desktop in the middle of the night to talk to random strangers in yahoo chat rooms.
I also learned how to type with just my left hand....
It's so you know if the keyboard is upside down or not.
/r/teachers is a horror show.
Itβs how I quit vi