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.
That's the nipples. You rub em and the keyboards like 'hey fj r over here!'
Is anybody gonna tell this oblivious 30 year old who's not particularly bad at typing what the lines are for?
Doesn't really have to do whether youre good or bad. When they teach you officially, they show you that the j and f are the home row where your index fingers go. If you're self taught you might not know that and that's totally fine as long as you can still type.
Wow, they really don't teach you kids typing anymore, huh.
So you can place your index fingers on the correct key without looking at the keyboard.
Huh, the more you know. Cheers!
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.
I touch type , and yes I figured out what the lines were for... But I definitely don't use them as reference points when I'm typing.
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.
I took typing lessons back in the mid โ90โs, 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 ๐
I had a high school class in the mid-90s that taught you how to type. It was taught on typewriters.
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... ๐
Arguing with strangers on the internet taught me more than any teacher ever could.
Nuh uh! :p
JK, me too. XD
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.
I should start out playing Zork with a Dvorak layout.
Zvorak or something
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.
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.
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.
My parents had me partake in a touch typing course. Only a few years later, after becoming a wbb2 forum mod, did I truly begin to appreciate and practice that skill.
As my 13yo would say, "why? I can just voice to text"
For when you need to do an assignment due the next day but your roommate keeps yelling at you to shut the fuck up already because they are trying to sleep while you slowly dictate the introduction to your 5 page essay, which then gets you kicked out of your class because you missed removing a few of the "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"s that your voice to text helpfully added for you.
They're not just lines, they're bumps. Haptic feedback as the kids say.
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.
I was never told, but I always assumed it was to orient yourself without looking, and that's where the index fingers go when hands are resting on the keyboard.
Yes that's what they're for
Smart cookie, you assumed correctly! :)
It was a hard habit to form if you were taught that way, but it does wonders once you learn it.
Tbf, I very rarely type with perfect form like that. Maybe for short bursts when I'm doing an assignment but in like every other case I keep my right hand on the mouse and do any hot keys with just my left hand. Granted thats mainly a gaming thing but also in like GIMP or blender
Blender's workflow of "One hand never leaves the mouse" is brilliantly underrated. They've made the UI more newbie accessible but I always encourage new folks to learn the hotkeys from the start, because you can get SO FAST!!
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.
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