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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] deus@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

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

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago

Hah, sometimes I forget how to spell a word but my fingers still remember it

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 3 points 8 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@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People that learned on manual typewriters will do this.

[–] spamellama@lemmy.world 1 points 8 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

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Cue Sean Connery in Finding Forester typing a full page with two index fingers like a boss.

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