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Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills (www.techspot.com)

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I had typing tutor software on the family PC. It made the mistake of trying to teach typing by starting with only home row keys, then expanding outward from there. So for a very long time, you would type things like adj daf jal ls; dal fka and so forth. It was a very long time until you really started to get it.

And then MSN chat rooms and messenger happened to me, and suddenly touch typing was the main way I had to hit on chicks. I knew what the home row was, so I knew what touch typing looked like, so I started actually doing it, but typing things I wanted to type. I'm now the third fastest typist I know. On a good keyboard with a passage I'm familiar with I can key 106WPM, right now typing conversationally out of my brain I'm probably hitting about 65 or 70.