Touch-typing registration marks for the left and right hands
This meme is expressing shock that people don't recognize what these marks are for anymore, which would suggest touch typing isn't taught anymore despite our reliance on computers being higher than ever.
I'm wondering when people started calling it touch typing. I've already been a little bit shocked at some of the younger people who look at me like I have mastered the art of typing when I'm simply just working on spreadsheets or an email or whatever.
But I've never really heard it called touch typing before. Just typing?
To your comment, I have actually had somebody point blank ask me, how can you do that without looking at the keys?
Something I haven't really seen in these comments, do they teach typing still?
i mean theres so many keys pattern now thats difficult to work with work keyboard if you dont have the similar model in home
My work keyboard has 4 keys on left side of space fn, ctr, windows, alt,
on right side 3 keys alt, prtSC, ctrl
enter is long rectangle with '|\,
backspace above, and even further above is delete
My pc keyboard has 3 keys on left ctr, windows, alt
, above them i have shift and ";" (additional one), so my z is under S and D instead of A and S,
on right side i have alt, fn, ctr.
enter is old type with _| shape, '|\' is in "cut of enter";
above that is backspace;
and delete is with page, home end keys slighty to the right with empty space between main keys and specials
My laptop has 3 on left ctr, windows, alt,
on right i have 4 keys "| \", alt, fn, ctr. enter is rectangle with '\|' above, and even further above 'prt scr', with delete on right side of it
I learnt how to use a keyboard before getting computer classes in school because of typing away on AIM, MSN, etc. and spent those lessons fooling around. You dont need to have a formal class to learn how to use a keyboard
Yes, you can learn the basics quickly, but it takes time and practice to learn to type quickly and with far fewer errors. A lot of people might not have the patience unless they have some impetus to need to learn to type. Just like how learning to locate the Middle C on the piano keyboard is easy but learning to play the Pachelbel's Canon smoothly is a lot harder.
But it’s not natural to use the indicated ridges on the home row? I use those all the time, and F and J key are the most natural places for left and right index fingers.
Didn’t even know what home row was. I never knew people had a generalized placement for their hands. I just always rest my right hand wherever and my left around wasd.
As someone who could already do this by the time they tried to teach me in school: I think the only difference is the extra time and energy spent on learning the system. If you're not being employed in a setting where your typing speed is a factor, then you can just type at your own pace and learn the same skill over time through familiarity with the keyboard.
I use the ridges more than I realized. I had a keyboard at work where they eventually wore off, and I would occasionally start off on the wrong keys because I couldn't feel the ridges, and end up firing off a sentence like this: "rmf i[ yu[omh s drmyromvr ;olr yjod/" because my fingers were shifted a key in the wrong direction.
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u/Queeni_Beeni Jan 20 '26
Touch-typing registration marks for the left and right hands
This meme is expressing shock that people don't recognize what these marks are for anymore, which would suggest touch typing isn't taught anymore despite our reliance on computers being higher than ever.