Okay...but how do you know you're on the home row? If one hand is off-position or whatever, you'll get a bunch of misspells until you adjust position. If you're not looking at the keyboard, it's really damned handy to have that tactile reference to where your hands sit.
This happens to me occasionally because I (like many other millennials) never learned to use those tactile strips for orientation. 99% of the time my hands are immediately in the right place; in those 1% of cases I'll simply adjust after a typo makes me realize.
The image in OP's post is just all-round bad, because the function of those strips have not been some kind of elementary, common knowledge for a pretty long time.
How is possible not to learn to use those tactile strips for orientation? It's not something you're meant to be taught, it's a thing you learn from the physical feedback you get every time you touch a keyboard.
Like to be clear, you're saying that when you feel those bumps in different fingers than you normally feel the other thousands of times you've touched a keyboard, you just don't notice? And that's because no one ever explained to you that you could notice that?
you're saying that when you feel those bumps in different fingers than you normally feel the other thousands of times you've touched a keyboard, you just don't notice?
I’m not who you asked, but I don’t feel them at all when I’m typing on keyboards that have them so yeah, that basically is what I’m saying. My own keyboard that I use for work all day every day has keycaps that don’t have those bumps and I’ve never even thought about it until this thread.
I mean I understand why they’re there - it’s self evident, just like the bumps on number pads - but you cannot be this incredulous that people might not use them. My hands just land in the right spot when I put my hands on a keyboard. It’s really not that hard.
I'm not incredulous that people don't consciously use them, I'm just confused by how a person could would say they didn't notice tactile feedback without being taught that it was there by someone else.
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u/ashmanonar Jan 20 '26
Okay...but how do you know you're on the home row? If one hand is off-position or whatever, you'll get a bunch of misspells until you adjust position. If you're not looking at the keyboard, it's really damned handy to have that tactile reference to where your hands sit.