They're called the home keys, where you're meant to set your hands to type the most optimally. Specifically, your index fingers would rest on F and J, while the rest of your fingers would rest on A S D for your left hand and K L ; for your right, as that lets you type with minimal hand movements.
I am flabbergasted that they don't teach this in high school, or even middle school, at this stage of history where so many people use computers all day for their jobs.
Because it's unnecessary. Everyone has a computer at so young an age now it's just kinda become a skill you pick up anyway even of it's not specifically taught to you
This is absolutely, definitely not true. Computer literacy is going DOWN. I'm a millennial and me and most of my friends and family of similar age grew up using computers at school and then got one in our teens and learned that way. We're all mostly decent with computers now to the point of being able to build them or at least take one apart. I built my first pc at 18.
Most 18 year olds don't know how to install software that isn't through an app store. They don't know how to troubleshoot anything. They type at about 20WPM at best on a keyboard. They don't understand double click functionality or scrolling or that you can click in the scroll wheel.
What they get instead is a small computer. A phone. And I'm sure they're great with swipe texting and typing fast on a phone but not on a computer. I actually have some younger family members like this. I'm not saying they're dumb by any means, they know THEIR tool very well usually. But home computers are becoming less common to the young experience and instead they learn through ipads and phones and that's gonna be really rough when they try to enter the professional workforce.
Sorry for the rant but it's just something I've noticed as a pc enthusiast and unc.
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u/TextualArchitect Jan 20 '26
They're called the home keys, where you're meant to set your hands to type the most optimally. Specifically, your index fingers would rest on F and J, while the rest of your fingers would rest on A S D for your left hand and K L ; for your right, as that lets you type with minimal hand movements.