• korendian@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    If people need to look at their keyboard to type, they should not have an office job, lol.

      • korendian@lemmy.zip
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        2 days ago

        What does that have to do with anything? My point is that being competent in typing is generally a prerequisite for any office job. Really weird that this is such a controversial take.

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          2 days ago

          I’m saying it’s nice to think about how people could be better…

          But office workers absolutely do not all know how to touch type. When you find yourself working at an office, your typing speed tends to get faster, but if you don’t already know how to touch type you just peck faster

          It’s why I’m so militant about my young relatives learning it. It’s not that hard to learn, but you have to learn it before you actually need it or you never will

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            14 hours ago

            How do you actually learn it? I always assumed it just comes naturally after typing enough.

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              14 hours ago

              Nope, you sit down and learn it.

              If you wanted to learn, I would find a typing game and keep playing until you can hit any key without looking. If you still weren’t learning, I’d put paper over your hands so you couldn’t look down and cheat

              So if you want this skill, find a typing game and don’t cheat. It’s that simple… It doesn’t even take that long, maybe 10 hours total? Maybe even less

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                13 hours ago

                I mean I don’t intend to learn it, I type 140 wpm lol. I just don’t remember ever having to sit down for 10 hours

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                  2 hours ago

                  Well… I didn’t mean straight. You play a typing game for 20 minutes occasionally, honestly you could probably just do that every day for a week and pick it up

                  And while you are proving my point perfectly, there’s advantages if you were to put in a little time… You make less typos and get better at power user features if you learn the positions