"They don't teach typing anymore"... for what, a job in the typing pool?? ๐
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I learnt to use these... Completely without instruction. I move my hands as I type and alternate my fingers by default.
I've tried touch typing tutorials, where I'm meant to keep my fingers within a 'zone', however it was causing my hands to cramp once I reached 90 WPM.
These little indicators are lovely for touch typing though, even if I'm not doing it 'properly'. No repetitive strain injury in my weird way of typing without looking though!
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I'm in my 50s. I don't know anyone who has ever been taught to type.
Iโm 52 and took a semester of typing in high school.
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I learned touch typing as a result of MSN messenger, in the dark, with a keyboard that would slide under the desk. I think phone contracts have resulted in a lot of people younger than me not being able to touch type.
My cousin types far faster than me, and he credits Typing of the Dead for that skill.
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I had to take "keyboarding" my freshman year of high school ( mid 90s), they had an option to opt out if you could type something like 30 words a minute, which I could, from all my messing around on my home PC.
I will say though, I have long fingers and it's extremely uncomfortable to type in the "proper" position using 8 fingers across the rows. I ended up making my own hybrid 6 finger system that has served me very well to this day, typically I can average around 50 WPM this way.
Anyways, bypassing keyboarding allowed me to take Basic Programming it its place, and each year after our awesome teacher created a new programming class for us, Pascal, C++, Visual Basic and Java by the time we graduated.
Those are for people who can type without looking ;)