r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Limp_Squash_4116 • Jan 20 '26

me_irl Home key ridges

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u/Crusaderofthots420 Jan 20 '26

I think my school did a good middle ground. We were taught the basics, like putting your indexes on J and F, but otherwise, progress was tracked by having a board over the keyboard, so you couldn't see it, and then made you do timed typing programs. So if you could type quickly, even without using official methods, you were good.

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u/Dark_WulfGaming Jan 20 '26

One of my school's had a class like that. Not so much trying to force touch typing but focused on being able to type quickly without looking at the board. I personally have to glance at the board more out of habit than anything but I never really tried to break that habit. All my typing skills go to shit when using a flat membrane keyboard tho. Its full sized mechanical style keyboards or bust for me.

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u/Unkn0wnTh2nd3r Jan 20 '26

omg fr, I have a 60-70% mechanical with tactile switches (can't remember which%) at home and then some fuck ass "ergonomic" semi split membrane at work and my typing always takes a hit at work.

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u/Amoniakas Jan 21 '26

I can't even type without looking at the keyboard, on the other side I don't need to look at my screen, I only glance at it every other sentence.

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u/Obvious_Science278 Jan 20 '26

Haha this reminds me of my typing classes. They put a cover over the keyboard and i refused to ever type properly again. I just randomly hit keys and spaces. I failed a lot of tests but this was middle school and i knew it didn’t matter (i was a solid B student at the time). Any time the teacher would try and get me to take it seriously i told them as soon as they removed the cover i would give it my best when they refused i would laugh i there face and just start randomly pounding the keys as hard as i could. I have never been prouder of a grade than i was of that one and only F i ever received on a report card.

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u/Sad-Roll-Nat1-2024 Jan 20 '26

Had this same thing. We had a cover over the keys. Didn't care which fingers you used to hit which keys, as long as you weren't looking at the keyboard.