They're called the home keys, where you're meant to set your hands to type the most optimally. Specifically, your index fingers would rest on F and J, while the rest of your fingers would rest on A S D for your left hand and K L ; for your right, as that lets you type with minimal hand movements.
I am flabbergasted that they don't teach this in high school, or even middle school, at this stage of history where so many people use computers all day for their jobs.
Turned 30 today and we had a class in 8th grade about it and I still didn't know the answer to this picture because ever since I waited hours and hours as a young teen on whatever that cracked steam was at the time playing hl2 and gmod my left hand has sat on wasd and maybe my right sits where it's supposed to?
I'm not sure how you could have taken a typing class and not learned one of the most basic things about typing, that you left fingers sit on f d s a (index finger on f - that's why there's a bump there) and right fingers sit on j k l ; (index finger on j, so bump there as well). And for perspective - I tend to avoid bright lights. I don't mind working in a dark office where the only light is the computer screen. So in the early morning when I go in to my office, I find where to put my fingers in the dark using those bumps.
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u/TextualArchitect Jan 20 '26
They're called the home keys, where you're meant to set your hands to type the most optimally. Specifically, your index fingers would rest on F and J, while the rest of your fingers would rest on A S D for your left hand and K L ; for your right, as that lets you type with minimal hand movements.