It's crazy when I see my co-workers who can't touch-type. Like, did I also used to be that slow?
Learning to touch-type is probably one of the best choices I've ever made. It only took like two weeks to learn (plus about a month to get used to it).
It's also just so fun and satisfying. Clickity-clackity :meowbongo:
@dopey_kun@jussi I work in tech and I get so confused when I notice a colleague who I’ve been working with for years can’t touch type. Like, I get that it’s a skill but I just imagine you’d pick it up over the years if you get paid 8 hours a day to sit in front of a computer. 🫥
@dopey_kun posts like this remind me that not everyone is a proficient typist and that is such a foreign concept to my personal experience. I started playing Mario Teaches Typing when I was no older than 11yo back in the 90s, and when my classmates were in typing class I was given a newspaper to transcribe instead as practice.
I have no meaningful memories of struggling to type. My wife is still flabbergasted when I take apart, clean, and put back all the keys on my keyboard without any kind of reference image.
I definitely take it for granted and forget to give others the mental space to type things that would be a breeze for me.
@neatchee I had those old typing games too, but I never stuck with them. I didn't really do much typing before I started coding. I decided to finally learn touch-typing around 2 years ago, and it's really one of the most valuable skills I've learned.
Honestly, watching others type often feels like walking behind someone slow :btr_bocchi_trash_lurk:
Still don't know my way aroung taking apart keyboards, though. We did that once in high school, and I haven't done it again since.
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