@nostupidquestions @casualconversation @casualuk how many of you can type without looking down at the keyboard ?

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[–] 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I'm lucky to be a millennial - we had typing classes in school. I can touch type.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Also a millennial. RuneScape had me breezing through my typing classes. I was typing 80 WPM by second grade.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Same! This was before the Grand Exchange, too, so you had to type the same thing over and over just to be seen enough to buy or sell something in the Varrock square. I remember using @ran@ quite frequently lol

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Also a millennial. Are younger people not learning to type in school?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Generations that came after us are assumed to be "digital natives" and aren't taught typing, file systems, how to assess if sources are trustworthy... They're just assumed to (somehow) know all of this naturally.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I knew that young people don't seem to know how to use computers but it didn't occur to me that even touch typing would be done away with. They all have had Chromebooks forced into their classrooms, they can't put Mavis Beacon on there? Not being taught to type really explains why many seem to struggle with computers generally, though. Everything is so much more difficult when it's so slow.

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