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It continues to boggle my mind why there would be engineers who cannot touch type - not just for speed but because your brain now has to spend part of its proce
by tomjen3 2y ago
It continues to boggle my mind why there would be engineers who cannot touch type - not just for speed but because your brain now has to spend part of its processing cycles trying to find the next key on the keyboard.
- JohnFen 2y agoMaybe we have different definitions of "touch typing"? I don't touch type, but I do type quickly and I never spend any processing cycles looking for a key, at least on a keyboard with a layout I'm used to.
- tomjen3 2y agoDo you look at the keyboard? Like I don't care where people put their fingers, or even if they use them all, but for me its not touch typing if you need to use your eyes.
- JohnFen 2y ago> Do you look at the keyboard? It depends on what I'm typing. Code? Very rarely, unless I'm using a keyboard that I'm not familiar with. Letters or other prose? About 25% of the time. But to the deeper point, thank you for clearing this up for me. We are indeed using different definitions. To me, "touch typing" is a very specific method of typing. It's not just the ability to type without looking at the keyboard. Now that I know there are different definitions, I can be more careful to make sure that I'm using the same definition as others.