• @AgentGrimstone
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    402 months ago

    Seeing people with respectable typing speed using just their two index fingers. What a waste. They could have been great.

    • @deus
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      202 months ago

      Your words do not hurt me, I’m already used to being a diappointment.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 months ago

      Even if they were half as fast, it’s so much more satisfying when you use all your fingers.

      I remember day I started actually using my right pinky finger to press the semicolon. That’s when I became a real man.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        That reminds me of when I learned to touch type 3 years ago, I went from 30wpm hunt and peck to 15wpm touch type
        Now I’m at ~80wpm and my small brain coming up with words is the limiting factor haha

    • Tlaloc_Temporal
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      112 months ago

      The fingers aren’t the bottleneck, it’s the brain. I type just as fast with two fingers as with ten.

    • Flying Squid
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      72 months ago

      That’d be me! Over 90 wpm with mostly my index fingers. I do use other fingers for some keys (I always hit space with my thumb and backspace with my ring finger), but it’s mostly index fingers.

      • @EtherWhack
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        32 months ago

        Same. I imagine, for me at least, it’s due to having deal with unendingly different keyboard models and not being in front of a terminal all day.

        I can however type relatively quickly with either my left or right hand and with the keyboard facing me or sideways. It’s a skill that’s really useful when helping someone out with an issue they’re facing. (I prefer being at their side over remote, as I can gauge what they do and don’t understand better)

    • @Jumi
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      22 months ago

      Ah yes, my dad mastered the 2-finger-search-system

    • @ikidd
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      22 months ago

      People that learned on manual typewriters will do this.

      • @spamellama
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        12 months ago

        I (my parents) had a computer when I was 5 and didn’t learn to type properly until I took a typing class on manual typewriters in middle school because computer games don’t teach you to type and we didn’t have the internet