Lore Sjöberg
So can everyone just touch-type now or what? I took a class in high school for that shit.
Dec 31, 2023 at 2:31pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadCactuar JoeDec 31, 2023
@loresjoberg Oh god no, mid-to-late Millennials and early Gen Z taught themselves touch typing and The Olds went, "Oh good, now we can remove it from the curriculum!" and shuttered all the typing classes. Now that phones have taken over, nobody younger than 20 ever learned touch typing. They all use a keyboard like my grandmother.
Show threadAaron SoleyDec 31, 2023
@CactuarJoe @loresjoberg My kids both wanted laptops. I told them that if they could type 30 WPM on an unlabeled keyboard I'd get them one. The 12-year-old practiced and succeeded a few months ago. The 11-year-old has decided she doesn't want one anymore, or at least not enough to practice.
Show threadBenjamin D. HutchinsDec 31, 2023
@loresjoberg True story: I wasn't allowed to take the typing class in high school, because I was on the "college prep" track and Intro to Typing was reserved for students on the "business" (i.e., "future clerical office workers") one. I guess they thought college students got secretaries or something, idk. I had to get a copy of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and take care of that myself at home.
Show threadBenjamin D. HutchinsDec 31, 2023
@loresjoberg As for people nowadays, I'm tempted to go into full grumpy old man mode and mutter about how it's all friggin' touch screens now anyway and nobody needs to know how to type, or spell, or compose a goddam sentence and YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN
Show threadMedieval CowDec 31, 2023
@loresjoberg Well, sort of, for some of them? But they’re weird about it because people self-teach and cement weird habits. My wife touch-types with one finger on her left hand and two on her right, and just *hammers* the keys. It’s absolutely fascinating to watch. I had to take a slow motion video to figure out what she was actually doing.