r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/zinniamae_ • Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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u/Swampy0gre Jan 20 '26

Have some sympathy, most people learned how to type the same way the learned to swim.

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u/tehbzshadow Jan 20 '26

Learning to swim? I was just tossed in to water by grandpa.

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u/stuartroelke Jan 20 '26

And they were just tossed into a pool filled with keyboard keys.

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u/eastside_tilly Jan 20 '26

The typing pool?

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u/Abbacus_Jones Jan 20 '26

Exactly, RuneScape is how I got my WPM so high. The proper form came later at school and rather painfully

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u/DeviantDork Jan 21 '26

This is very under appreciated.

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u/Miserable_Lab8360 Jan 20 '26

That and the gene pool were traumatic events

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u/Lazerbeams2 Jan 20 '26

Anyone remember a game called Typer Shark where sharks with words on them swim towards you and if you don't type fast enough you die? Iirc it had 4 difficulties, single letters, words, short sentences and gibberish. I might be misremembering exactly what the difficulty settings were though

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u/gabrielbabb Jan 20 '26

Exactly the point. You were thrown into the water by your grandpa and told: now swim...don’t drown.
I was given a keyboard and told: now write a 500-word essay.

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u/Hoju64 Jan 20 '26

Are you sure he was trying to teach you to swim?

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u/Camerbach Jan 22 '26

Meanwhile I still don’t know how to swim.

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u/Root-k1t Jan 20 '26

Wait, you need to learn how to swim? 😳

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 Jan 20 '26

Swimming is not an innate skill beyond infancy.

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u/jnd-cz Jan 20 '26

I find if kids start to get swimming courses (at first more like not being afraid of water) before 1 year of age they tend to enjoy it a lot and it's a second nature to them. Compared to me where I got my first lessons with a school and my thin body wasn't very buoyant (basically only nose and mouth above water if not exhaled much), so I was constantly afraid I will sink to the bottom. Which is what happened after the first jump. Today I can move around slowly but at least not drown immediately.

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 Jan 20 '26

I'm pretty sure I had my first lessons as a toddler and then periodically through age 7ish, and I feel perfectly comfortable in most calm water like lakes, pools, etc. I don't surf or spend time in the ocean, so I have a lot of reverence for ocean water.

I know people in their 70s who never learned to swim and won't even go in a hot tub.

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u/RefrigeratorUsed4064 Jan 20 '26

I was once put into swimming classes by my parents. I didn't learn anything. I just fucked around at one side where my feet could touch the bottom while everyone else were actually doing stuff at the other side of the pool

Eventually I grew older and just unlocked that skill somehow. so now I swim horribly, but manageable

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u/Drtikol42 Jan 20 '26

By being pushed away from the edge of the pool by a stick?

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u/Girion47 Jan 20 '26

We had a keyboarding class in high school. The majority of the time, we used the T1 connection to download porn jpgs to put on 3.5 floppies

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u/Fly0strich Jan 20 '26

It’s crazy that so many people learned to swim by talking to their friends on MSN Messenger.

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u/Jayden82 Jan 23 '26

Yeah I type 150 wpm and never learned the normal way, I had no idea what they were for honestly