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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can do it on my 0hone as qell

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• TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m lucky to be a millennial - we had typing classes in school. I can touch type.

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  • Carl@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also a millennial. RuneScape had me breezing through my typing classes. I was typing 80 WPM by second grade.

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    • tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Same! This was before the Grand Exchange, too, so you had to type the same thing over and over just to be seen enough to buy or sell something in the Varrock square. I remember using @ran@ quite frequently lol

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  • pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also a millennial. Are younger people not learning to type in school?

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    • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Generations that came after us are assumed to be “digital natives” and aren’t taught typing, file systems, how to assess if sources are trustworthy… They’re just assumed to (somehow) know all of this naturally.

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• 48954246@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep, fully touch type here. Still make plenty of mistakes but rarely actually have to look at the keyboard

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• cybervegan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Me. I am typing this without looking at the keyboard. Learnt at college on an old school electric typewriter as part of my computer science course in the mid 1980s.

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  • codewizard@hear-me.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    @cybervegan I was born around that time.

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  • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Same. IBM selectronic.

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• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Another touch typer here. I cut my teeth on online MUDs in the 90s - literally a type-fast-or-your-character-dies situation.

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• Berttheduck@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can touch type pretty well. Dyslexia not withstanding. I learned during the MSN messenger years.

  I can also blind swipe text on my phone with not totally atrocious accuracy. Still need to proof read them before sending though.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not me. I know where the buttons are, I just have really bad aim.

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• chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My job is a lot of writing code so I have that ability whether I want to have it or not. I have also gotten half decent at swiping phone without looking. Usually one or two words are wrong though

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• communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image I type on this as my only keyboard.

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• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No problem! We were taught this in primary school

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• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can, I have been touch typing in Colemak for almost a decade. I could type without looking at the keyboard on qwerty before, but it wasn’t touch typing.

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can touch type with relative accuracy and speed, until I sit down in front of one of these ultra-cheap keyboards where the key spacing and travel is all wrong, then I can adjust to it over the course of 30 minutes or so.

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Despite making them my main hobby the lat couple of years, not me, at least not with any level of speed or confidence. I don’t hunt and peck, but it’s definitely a weird dance of muscle memory and hand-eye coordination, and I top out at about 60-70 wpm when composing from my mind, quite a bit less if I’m transcribing something, but that’s not the use case it once was.

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• brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My keyboard has blank caps… Looking at it would be pointless except maybe to see what layer it’s on

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• myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  learned it back in the day by trivia games on IRC

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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I touch type, have had and regularly used two different keyboards with blank keycaps without issue

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• bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I learned how to type recently because my wife can do it really fast. So I practiced late nights for months just so I could beat her.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think I hypothetically could, but I’ve got real thick fingers so I usually make a bunch of sloppy typos.

  Redragon briefly made an upscaled keyboard, and I didn’t pull the trigger when I had the chance because I like having a num pad, and now they’ve stopped making it. Haven’t found anyone else that makes one, so I guess I’ll never really know if I can touch type.

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• zlatiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Learned Colemak-DH a year ago, yes. In fact my keyboard is not correctly labeled at all, so I have to blind type…

  Used to be able to do it on QWERTY too, but I might need a week to get back into it. I can semi-do it on my phone (QWERTY) but not very good at it

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• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can do letters, . and , ; :’ " ! ?

  I can’t do the numbers or number bar symbols at all

  I can’t do ~ or `

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