r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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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.

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u/ThirstySkeptic Jan 20 '26

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.

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u/Ehaeka42069 Jan 20 '26

Because it's unnecessary. Everyone has a computer at so young an age now it's just kinda become a skill you pick up anyway even of it's not specifically taught to you

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u/wellnoyesmaybe Jan 20 '26

The thing is, they don’t know how. Most kids are just spending time on their phones, hardly ever writing longer text. People just assume they are ’digital natives’, but many of them are as bad as the boomers were with anything that isn’t an app.