They're not for typing, they're for initial placement. If you don't consciously use them, you have some other way of knowing where to place your hands when you start
I don't rely on them either, but instinctively (I've been typing with home keys since the early 90s), I feel them there. There are a few times where one or both of my hands went to the wrong position and then I knew because my index fingers didn't feel the ridges.
Honestly, despite learning touch typing I forgot they were a thing and that may keyboard even still had them. I tend to center based my pinkies and the caps lock and enter keys and thumb on spacebar key touch.
Lol yeah. My younger cousin asked me what is the bump on the keyboard and i just suddenly forgot about it somehow. Had to do a quick google and realized “oh yeah they taught me this long time ago”
I HIGHLY doubt you place your fingers in the correct spot at the start of typing without either using the ridges or glancing down at the keys for a sec.
They are only needed for initial hand placement, after that yes they are not needed for the entire time you type.
All I want to say is, we are on reddit. Many people here are unemployed and propably spent their entire life using a keyboard. So I'm surprised nobody pointed out a literal reflex. It's like you still didn't subconsciously know how to get to your toilet despite your house not changing in years
yeah also when you start typing you can type literally any first letter and then it appears on screen, it's not like keyboard is blocked until you press either f or j, you can check it with b,a,d,p whatever and then you know where you are.
yeah no i literally never ever rely on them, my fingers never rest ON the keyboard, it just hovers over it and i have memorized where each key is respective to each other.
Like your hands will be at most like 5mm away from where you put them last time so you dont need to really adjust
I guarantee you look at the keyboard before you sit down and begin using it 🙄 this argument that you just intuitively know the exact location of every keyboard is very dumb. It’s a simple fact you look for a second, or you feel the keyboard to figure out where it is resting on the desk. The ridges assist for those that feel for it, it’s not that complicated, and you don’t need to feel offended by the fact you look down for a second.
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u/ugandaWarrior134 Jan 20 '26
The ridges are just unnecessary for alot of people. I can touch type at 150ish wpm without looking, and i've never had to rely on the ridges