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Say it ain't so (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 24 points 4 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    So you can place your index fingers on the correct key without looking at the keyboard.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Huh, the more you know. Cheers!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I don't see how one wouldn't naturally get that, no offense. I mean, if one didn't paticularly really ever use a keyboard and typed like gen-x or olders, with index fingers, sure.

    But surely if you're 30 and used a keyboard all your life you don't need to look at the keyboard while typing..?

    No offense. I may just be way overusing one since I was a teenager idk.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I've seen an incredible number of people who were never taught to properly touchtype and where each finger goes and developed bizarre techniques to type with 4, 6, or 8 fingers that may be almost as fast as the proper one but horrendously non-ergonomic. Ubiquity of staggered layouts (instead of proper ortholinear) does not help — it's almost like it's begging to type Z with ring finger and X with middle one.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I’m deep into my 40s, and I’m one of those. I can get up to 70 words per minute for short stretches, but it’s still a weird dance that combines muscle memory and hand-eye coordination.

    I did learn just enough to know to hover my hands and keep my arms at a good posture, so I’ve never had any RSI from typing. That also may be partly because that I’m so inconsistent that I don’t get enough of the R for RSI, LOL.

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