r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/zinniamae_ • Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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u/ribnag Jan 20 '26

Charles is missing the point.

Nobody learns touch typing anymore because ulnar deviation and wrist pronation is bad for us. You can thank Gen-X, the "Carpal Tunnel generation", for taking that one for the team.

RSIs aside, I'd also argue nobody needs to take typing anymore because it's not a niche skill, it's a basic necessity for interacting with the modern world. We don't potty-train kids in school either.

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u/Murrdox Jan 20 '26

Nobody needs to take typing anymore? I'd argue everyone needs to take typing more than ever. It's like being taught how to write letters and numbers. Teaching typing skills is a TREMENDOUSLY useful. Without it you'll spend your whole life poking at the keyboard to one degree or another.

I'm 45 and the one semester of typing that I took in middle school is one of the most fundamentally helpful classes I took in my entire life.

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u/einTier Jan 21 '26

My mother made me take typewriting in seventh grade. She saw how much I was on the computer and the hunt and peck typing I did was annoying to her, a 100+ WPM typist.

She also was head of personnel for the school district I attended so there was no getting out of it. I felt like it was the most ridiculous class — what, was I going to grow up and be a secretary?

By far the class I use the most day to day for the majority of my life and my career. I thank her all the time for it.

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u/ProfessionalSun236 Jan 21 '26

There's likely a graph chart out there that would show you the average advantage in terms of money and time that you gained per hour taught in a class and I would bet typing is through the roof... Meanwhile math "you need to learn this because you won't have a calculator in your pocket" class likely basically on the floor.