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paradoxally t1_j23pdbc wrote

Reply to comment by thibounet in My 87yo Great-Grandma wanted to know more about my weird typing machine. by thibounet

> But she told me tales of some of her friends who could write blindfolded entire pages without faults.

Touch typing is a lost art, sadly.

Do any schools even teach that anymore?

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crefas t1_j23zv6l wrote

Being a gamer, I picked up touch typing as soon as I got my first PC and it seems like the natural way to type. Discovered the stare-at-the-keyboard way of typing only recently when I saw one of my non-computer-savvy friends type. Glorious 15 WPM

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praenoto t1_j245rmr wrote

my touch typing as a “gamer” was characterized by my left hand having best access to the keyboard (being on the keys already) and centered over WASD rather than ESDF. so I typed as much as I could reach with my left hand and used a few fingers from my right hand sparingly.

taught myself how to properly touch type a few years ago though and I very much prefer it. except it took an otholinear keyboard to get the zxc cluster down.

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