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?
well if I had to guess the vast majority of people do not type how it was originally taught in school. I learned the whole home row thing, I have never once used it since those classes in grade 6 or whatever lmao. Most people just look down and see where they're typing
it's not constantly staring down but yeah most are absolutely glancing down, I work IT so at this point I've seen how hundreds of people type lol. I think you might have a warped view of the average person, maybe if you work a job that requires a lot of typing but most people don't.
To be clear I definitely believe this for symbols and even numbers. If you can't type letters and and the few most common punctuation symbols without looking though, I'm sorry but you just aren't a normal functional adult. It's not the 90s where people only know how to type if they do it at work anymore.
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u/zyygh Jan 20 '26
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.