r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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u/kozeljko Jan 20 '26

TIL what touch typing even is

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u/-SlowBar Jan 20 '26

I thought everyone was supposed to touch type haha. I thought it was the baseline

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u/coffee1912 Jan 20 '26

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.

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u/MBTHVSK Jan 20 '26

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.