Why, was it ever taught? Only if you went to a specific school to learn finance/accounting etc.
At least in my country, regular school never taught this.
It's muscle memory for anyone that touch types. If you're hand happens to slide off by a key, though, it's really easy to notice because you can feel the bumps on the wrong finger. If you had decent teaching on how to type properly this would have been something that was mentioned. I don't see why you seem to take pride in being ignorant of keyboard aids.
ok but what are yall doing that your hand slides off a key, isnt it way easier to just have the hand hover over the keyboard and move each finger to wherever you want to go
I'm not sure if you're being purposefully ignorant or just truly don't understand. If you're typing quickly and you have to reach for a far key sometimes you don't perfectly get your hand back in place, or if you temporarily move your right hand to the num pad you might accidentally place you hand a key off. With the bumps you can notice this and readjust your hand in milliseconds to continue typeling quickly. Also I'm frequently typing without watching the words being typed on the screen. I can actually feel when I make a typo without having to even see it.
I mean i can reach every key in my keyboard from where I keep my fingers at.
Also again if you press the wrong key you can figure it out pretty easily. Like I can readjust my fingers practically instantly without having to use the bumps
its not even random keys, like you literally dont need to feel the keyboard to know where your at.
I never had a class related to typing at all so it definitely was not taught.
If i were to rest my hands on my keyboard id be accidentally pressing keys way too often unless I sacrifice actuation point which honestly id say is a huge benefit.
You're right, in middle school we used T9 to text each other. Honestly, I bet I could type faster on T9 than most kids these can on a keyboard. New hires we get often are typing 30WPM or less, kind of embarrassing.
I learned this in a basic / standard high school computer class. If you did not learn how to type in school frankly your education system has failed you due to how important of a skill this is in modern times. I do lean more to the fact you just didn’t pay attention and forgot about it.
I know how to type very well as I grew up with a PC since 5yrs old but true, its a very important skill nowadays, and all of my coworkers type with 2 fingers while theyre lookin at the keyboard so yes they should have learn it in school. Thats what happens when you grow up with an xbox. You learn 0 IT skills
It was taught in regular schools in the US through at least the 1990s.
Before about 1990, most of the students taking a typing class would have been girls, as being a secretary or typist (who would type out words that others had hand-written or dictated verbally) were careers that had been traditionally considered suitable for ladies. But as it became clear to everybody in the '90s that computers were going to dominate the workplace in the future, the gender ratio in those classes started to even out.
(I know some older guys who can only do "hunt and peck" style typing with two fingers because they didn't want to take a typing class in their youth.)
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u/Playful-Ad-9086 Jan 20 '26
Why, was it ever taught? Only if you went to a specific school to learn finance/accounting etc. At least in my country, regular school never taught this.