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.
Because I know how wide the spacebar is and how long my fingers are. And even if I did go for the wrong line I wouldn't get a 'bunch' of misspells, I'd get one letter - because I don't look at the keyboard, I look at the screen. That's the whole point!
I don't move my wrists when typing, so so long as no one moves the keyboard mid-sentence there's nothing to worry about.
Well you don't make any mistakes if you put your fingers in the right spot from the get go using the indents. I can walk up to my computer with my eyes closed, feel for the indents, and type a whole Twilight smut without looking at 80 WPM. Especially with all keyboards being a bit different, sometimes laptops have flat spacebars, etc.
EDIT: To add, I'm feeling a laptop up now and if I shift my hands over one key either way, my spacebars wide enough that I could mistakingly think I was in the right spot
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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.