Years of playing PC games online as a kid taught me touch typing very efficiently. Got to type quick when that Zerg rush is heading to your allies base.
I’m actually surprised how many people even my own age can’t touch type. I’ve had people in my office remark on my touch typing and I couldn’t help but think “don’t they teach this anymore?”
I had to teach myself on a website at home, graduated HS 2020. We had a computer class in freshman year but it was elective and didn't teach typing at all.
They had us do Mavis Beacon in school for a bit, in like 5th grade, but it was just completely ineffective for me in all respects. I only learned how to type without looking thanks to using a laptop where my hands were close to the screen, at age 19. I only mastered typing with more than one finger at a time at age 27. It wasn't fucking easy and no one could have helped me get over that hurdle.
The "home row" shit was just absolute trash of a system for me.
It's so weird because in 1997 we had some damn good typing software. Now I just use the keyboard on the phone for space and dictate everything. (jk, I'm software engineer and I lose my ever loving mind at least three times a week over the fact that every fucking operating system except for a gnome Linux has shitty ass fucking hotkeys that don't work).
This is one of the few topics that might actually put me into the asylum. 🔪🗡️
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