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> For a doctor that was nearing the age of retirement or had very poor keyboard proficiency... I went to a doctor recently who was typing very fast. I did kid
by TacticalCoder 2y ago
> For a doctor that was nearing the age of retirement or had very poor keyboard proficiency...
I went to a doctor recently who was typing very fast. I did kid with her that she could type nearly as fast as I did and yet she was also using one of this automated note taking thinggamagic (holding some kind of microphone in her hand).
She'd type manually for stuff like email/subject, click click one sentence here, click, one word there: for that kind of stuff it's too slow to dictate one word, then click, etc.
But in that big empty text field? She'd dictate.
As a bonus as her patient I got to hear her report (or "my" report if you want) in real-time.
- Magi604 2y agoI once had to go to a walk-in clinic to deal with a minor emergency. The doctor who attended me was literally typing with his pointer fingers.
- furyofantares 2y agoWere they slow? There's actually plenty of people who can do that at a reasonable or even fast pace. Of course lots of people type reasonably quickly with two thumbs too (or in the case of this comment, a left thumb and right pointer finger).
- nkrisc 2y agoIt’s always slower than typing properly.
- furyofantares 2y agoSure, in the hypothetical where the person also decided to learn to type properly. If someone is plenty fast for their needs then it doesn't really matter, though.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoI don't type properly (use about half my fingers) but I find 80wpm is usually fast enough.
- ycombinator_acc 2y agoUsing half your fingers is different from using two.
- saberience 2y agoI can type with two fingers faster than I can type with full hands. I’m still trying to get my touch typing up to the speed of my two fingers. I spent two years typing with just my forefingers, and can dk 80wpm with 99+ accuracy and I don’t look at the keyboard. With two hands I’m still at 60-65 roughly and with worse accuracy but I’m sure it will come with time.
- ycombinator_acc 2y agoDoesn't sound real. I've typed correctly my whole life and have a lower WPM than that. You'd need to move your fingers at superhuman speeds to achieve that with just two wingers.
- saberience 2y agoI spent literally thirty years typing with two forefingers, and note, I didn’t need to look at the keyboard. Also worked as a software engineer that whole time. So I had a lot of practice. It’s why it’s taken me so long to try and adapt to touch typing. Too much muscle memory to rewire.
- alecsm 2y agoFun fact. An old coworker typed like that. He's a software engineer.