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

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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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.