memes

Just showing off, excuse me

The best typing training I ever got was IRC. You had to learn to type fast or some idiot wouldn't know how wrong he was.

This definitely prepared me for a career where 90% of my interaction with coworkers is via chat.

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

As a blind computer user I'm shocked at how many people forget touch typing exists. I learned earlier than most, by necessity, and didn't have to take the then-mandatory keyboarding classes in middle school.

Born in time to ask shitty questions on Twitter.

Born too late to JUST FUCKING GOOGLE IT.

They don't teach typing anymore. Which is like. Makes zero sense.

I see college kids typing out essays with two index fingers.

No one learns typing unless forced. It's super boring.

They need to make it mandatory in public schools. Or future generations will be unable to type properly.

I learned it back in like 8th grade or something.

Is anybody gonna tell this oblivious 30 year old who's not particularly bad at typing what the lines are for?

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

Hopefully this is helpful.

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

I grew up with a computer in the 80s and for years i would stare at the keyboard while mentally keeping track of what I was typing.

I took keyboarding in middle school and learned to touch type but it took years of practice to break the habits I formed as a child.

Now I'll be typing something and my husband will walk in so I'll pause and look over to see what he needs. One time he said "don't stop on my account" so I started typing again while staring at him.

I can hold a full conversation while doing this but have to slow down to around 60wpm to avoid transcribing the conversation.

30 Years ago

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

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.

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.

Even if they would teach it, people are forgetting so much of what they learned at school.

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.

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.

As Mavis Beacon gently weeps...

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

They're speed lines, they make you type faster.

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

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.

While we're at it: Fuck those ASUS designers that decided to put those nubbins on W key. Republic of gamers my ass, ⇥a321 you.