Fyi, typing games are weirdly making a comeback on steam and I’m here for it
I played Typing of the Dead a month ago after not playing it since I was a kid. Holds up. I love typing games.
A lot of schools don’t because there isn’t a standardized program for teaching it. I know we used a very tough typing game for when we were taught. Not sure if I was slower on the uptake but I worked real hard to get good at touch typing.
As Mavis Beacon gently weeps…
I only learned a few years ago, she was not a real person. Just an actress that was used to create a persona. It did help me type tho.
If the dishonesty bothers you, I recommend a more realistic tutor for learning to type: Typing of the Dead.
Turning in her fictional grave.
Carriage returns from the grave.
To make it really easy to know where U and H are, because you never want to be unable to type uhhhhh without looking at the keyboard
This comment has been brought to you by Dvorak, it would be great if it were more supported
Why would we need dvorak?
I found it to resolve the problem of my wrists hurting when I type too much.
But the lack of support is basically that for some reason games tend to use it as my keyboard layout (it’s my default) even when I switch to qwerty before starting it up, forcing me to respec the controls. Still worth not being in pain after typing up something, and definitely lower priority than left handed controls, but it is a minor annoyance.
Who hear took a keyboarding class? By keyboard I mean a typewriter.
Me, haha
I was required to take typing classes in middle school, and the teach put cardboard over our hands
That must’ve been really uncomfortable with the cardboard bouncing up & down on your knuckles while you’re typing 🤔
As a gamer I always wanted one of these on the W.
searches
These are awesome! Thanks for letting me know about them.
Cheap clear nail polish.
Shifting of focus (eyes to keyboard then back to screen) can slow you down a lot. With computers I just stare at the keyboard and type. Problem with this is when something happens on the screen and the cursor is no longer where I think it is.
What I hate is the forced use of the mouse. Either make it all mouse or all keyboard navigable. In fact, with people having to use screen readers, all forms need to be keyboard navigable.Those are for people who can type without looking ;)
I had to take “keyboarding” my freshman year of high school ( mid 90s), they had an option to opt out if you could type something like 30 words a minute, which I could, from all my messing around on my home PC.
I will say though, I have long fingers and it’s extremely uncomfortable to type in the “proper” position using 8 fingers across the rows. I ended up making my own hybrid 6 finger system that has served me very well to this day, typically I can average around 50 WPM this way.
Anyways, bypassing keyboarding allowed me to take Basic Programming it its place, and each year after our awesome teacher created a new programming class for us, Pascal, C++, Visual Basic and Java by the time we graduated.
I’m in my 50s. I don’t know anyone who has ever been taught to type.
30’s, and we definately had typing lessons and practice in Information Technology classes.
30s and me, my parents, and grandparents all were taught to touch type in school
In the warm computer labs that smelled of burning dust and ozone
Maybe people older than me had typing classes and people younger had IT classes then - my age group didn’t have anything like that.
I’m 52 and took a semester of typing in high school.
I learned touch typing as a result of MSN messenger, in the dark, with a keyboard that would slide under the desk. I think phone contracts have resulted in a lot of people younger than me not being able to touch type.
My cousin types far faster than me, and he credits Typing of the Dead for that skill.
Yeah I learned how to type in high school in the year 1990. Since the existence of cell phones I have hardly touched a keyboard, maybe once a year when I pull out my laptop to do my taxes. But I was amazed when I learned how to type and amazed how quickly I became a high-speed touch typist and it is a thrill to me that it’s a skill I have because it was a little bit hard to learn at first but so proud that I got it and it feels like magic to be a touch typist!
Are questions memes now?
Just showing off, excuse me
🥵
Well, username checks out.
Genuinely made me laugh
Homeboy mixed up his username and his password.
I hope autofill did that. That’s for sure a rando password right?
This guy types so much, friction completely erased the prints
it wasn’t there in the first place :p
get in touch with their support if you haven’t already
I think you misunderstand, i payed 10€ to not have the prints, because not only it’s wrong when the layout changes (i do this a lot) but it is also way cooler looking
It’s actually good to have the wrong layout printed. You’ll get multiple times the confusion, especially with non-touch-typists, who’ll just assume they hit all the wrong keys, and will try again and again.
How is that good exactly?
Hard mode on, I see.
aaaaaalright
I had key caps like that in grad school both in my home and school computers. Made it real awkward when friends would come over and try to use my computer for something (e.g. look up some songs to put on a Spotify playlist).
well i have no friends, so am safe
My main keyboard was a blank das keyboard for a while, and I had a Fisher price learning keyboard that I’d pull out for my friends if my keyboard intimidated them.
I had a more sedate keyboard for those I didn’t know well enough.
That is very funny trolling and exactly how one should treat their friends
I can handle most typing by touch but there’s no way I’m going to remember the ampersand, carrot, and percentage keys.
Oh, you’d learn if you tried. Sounds way harder than it is.
I’d learn if I practiced.
The problem is that I’m not using those keys very often, so it doesn’t stick in my mind.
And there’s no way I’m going to practice either. There’s basically no point for me.
Start using vim and you’ll learn real quick
framework spotted! (13 pro? wink wink)
I see another fella 😉
If only, I have a 10 year old Macbook Air lmao
I thought the pro only came in the black/graphite
Now make it dvorak
Now make it programmer-dvorak
I’m with yaHehe solid choice 😎 have a nice day/evening
Your confidence is intimidating
Those keys still have the lines on them
You still need the lines. The lines are there to identify where to put your fingers, not to tell you what key you’re on.
Wish they offered ortho too.
No one makes this for iOS that I can tell
Blank phone keyboards heh :)
They didn’t teach typing when I was in school. I guess it’s an assumed skill? Anywho, I still knew what those notches/bumps were for :3
Out of curiosity, about when were you in grade school? I learned touch typing in the late 90s in middle school. I remember laminated construction paper taped to each keyboard so we could learn visually first, then had to flip it over and cover our hands to start developing the muscle memory for each set of keys.
Not who you asked but I was in highschool in the 2010s and they had a typing class but it was an elective.
We didn’t start IT until 5th grade, which would’ve been in 2012-2013 :3
80s kid here, we learned on typewriters and the shared apple ii in the library. I was good at it because I knew piano and it just settled easy in my mind.
I made it mandatory for my kids to learn because I just knew this shit would be needed. Also didn’t allow for short words like LOL until they could type it out. Daughter got to a point where her “laugh out loud” was amazingly fast and she begged me to let her “be normal” lmfao.
