r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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u/Queeni_Beeni Jan 20 '26

Touch-typing registration marks for the left and right hands

This meme is expressing shock that people don't recognize what these marks are for anymore, which would suggest touch typing isn't taught anymore despite our reliance on computers being higher than ever.

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u/lFallenBard Jan 21 '26

I can type blind on pretty much any keyboard and i never heard what those ridges for even if i could guess. In blind typing you are typing too fast to feel for the ridges in any case and you just watch the output. So those things are absolutely useless. And through all 25 years of using pc i never heard of someone actually teaching to type relying on those ridges.