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Say it ain't so (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 89 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I took typing lessons back in the mid ‘90’s, which was VERY uncommon for teens to do. When we got the first online multiplayer games, they only had text chat. I certainly had the fastest, foulest mouth in chat 😂

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    There we go!

    I spent more time socializing on World of Warcraft than actually leveling. Had lots of friends, and since been happily married to my best one!

    Touch typing skills were essential, especially mid-combat.

    ...Or being the undiagnosed ADHD socialite I was, keeping like 8 running whisper and guild chats going in the game's single chat window at once... 😂

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    While I can also say IRC, wasn't anything like proving someone wrong, just keeping up with the speed of the conversation required being able to type without looking at the keyboard.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, I feel like Discord (ugh) got that way quick, too, in more populated rooms. IIRC, IRC didn't have that "quote for context" either, so if you were hunt-and-pecking the conversation already moved on lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, for me it was all AIM chats, though I had a couple friends who used IRC. But if you wanted to be part of the conversation, you better know how to type. You wanna make a quip? Better be quick, because so does everyone else.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    IRC and Diablo 2 for me. You had to type fucking quick if you wanted to say something while your character was running to the spot you clicked on because you couldn't click again until you finished and hit enter on that message lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Also a great way to learn Dvorak. Memorize the key combo to switch between the two depending on how detailed you need to be in telling them they are wrong, but as long as you keep making yourself spend a little more time on the less familiar layout, you'll eventually become fluent and won't have to contort your fingers as much regularly to type quickly.

    Though typing games can help, too.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    Playing MUDs felt like an advanced typing course to me. Especially before scripts and shit became available in the front end. Running around, going through attacks, spells, changing stances, running back to town, roleplaying with other players, reading description text and needing to figure out if a had to go through or climb something and it would get real fun if someone was fighting a mob in the room you entered. Raids and stuff were just insane. Trying to keep up with everything and typing constantly without using the mouse for anything. I haven’t thought about playing those games for a long time, thanks for the walk down memory lane!

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