Those are for people who can type without looking ;)
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.
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Me, haha
Fyi, typing games are weirdly making a comeback on steam and I’m here for it
I played Typing of the Dead a month ago after not playing it since I was a kid. Holds up. I love typing games.
I had to take “keyboarding” my freshman year of high school ( mid 90s), they had an option to opt out if you could type something like 30 words a minute, which I could, from all my messing around on my home PC.
I will say though, I have long fingers and it’s extremely uncomfortable to type in the “proper” position using 8 fingers across the rows. I ended up making my own hybrid 6 finger system that has served me very well to this day, typically I can average around 50 WPM this way.
Anyways, bypassing keyboarding allowed me to take Basic Programming it its place, and each year after our awesome teacher created a new programming class for us, Pascal, C++, Visual Basic and Java by the time we graduated.
As Mavis Beacon gently weeps…
Turning in her fictional grave.
Carriage returns from the grave.
I only learned a few years ago, she was not a real person. Just an actress that was used to create a persona. It did help me type tho.
If the dishonesty bothers you, I recommend a more realistic tutor for learning to type: Typing of the Dead.
As a gamer I always wanted one of these on the W.
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These are awesome! Thanks for letting me know about them.
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
Why would we need dvorak?
I found it to resolve the problem of my wrists hurting when I type too much.
But the lack of support is basically that for some reason games tend to use it as my keyboard layout (it’s my default) even when I switch to qwerty before starting it up, forcing me to respec the controls. Still worth not being in pain after typing up something, and definitely lower priority than left handed controls, but it is a minor annoyance.
I was required to take typing classes in middle school, and the teach put cardboard over our hands
That must’ve been really uncomfortable with the cardboard bouncing up & down on your knuckles while you’re typing 🤔
I’m in my 50s. I don’t know anyone who has ever been taught to type.
I’m 52 and took a semester of typing in high school.
30’s, and we definately had typing lessons and practice in Information Technology classes.
30s and me, my parents, and grandparents all were taught to touch type in school
Maybe people older than me had typing classes and people younger had IT classes then - my age group didn’t have anything like that.
I learned touch typing as a result of MSN messenger, in the dark, with a keyboard that would slide under the desk. I think phone contracts have resulted in a lot of people younger than me not being able to touch type.
My cousin types far faster than me, and he credits Typing of the Dead for that skill.
Shifting of focus (eyes to keyboard then back to screen) can slow you down a lot. With computers I just stare at the keyboard and type. Problem with this is when something happens on the screen and the cursor is no longer where I think it is.
What I hate is the forced use of the mouse. Either make it all mouse or all keyboard navigable. In fact, with people having to use screen readers, all forms need to be keyboard navigable.I taught myself a personal typing style, because I found touch typing to be awkward, unpleasant and quite frankly shitty to follow.
So yeah, not okay with the implications that not knowing those lines means not knowing how to type.
Whether you touch type per the formal method or not, if you don’t know what the lines are for, ot means you weren’t taught (or weren’t paying attention) typing.
I was taught it in school in typing class, so the meme is accurate, but could be rephrased to something like: What do you mean you don’t know that the lines are for? Are they not teaching that in school anymore?
I also don’t formally touch type but it’s just a meme.
It’s not about not knowing how to type it’s about not being /taught/ to type. Touch typing and the home row or whatever is what is formally taught.
The last keyboard I built I went with blank keycaps to force myself to learn to fully use the keyboard without looking.
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.
Put a small dot of clear nail polish or glue on the key to recreate the bump.
Tried clear nail polish, now it’s well dry and works like a dream!
Hot glue applied via toothpick, problem solved.
