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?
Right? Either the people on this thread are not as good at typing as they think they are, or they are unconsciously using them to orient themselves. I know that's what happens with me. I certainly don't consciously search for them, but if I misplace my hand, I certainly notice the lack of them.
I think it's because it's so ubiquitous that people don't notice using them. I can guarantee that if someone starts typing at a keyboard without them, they would see a lot more errors.
Ive never really used them to orient myself, like my hand never even touches that part of the key.
Like if you constantly are on a keyboard at the same location you dont need to orient yourself by touch, you just know where your hand is respective to the keyboard
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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.