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How can you work with computers all day and be a hunt and peck typist? I'm not judging, I just don't understand. Is this some sort of medical condition?

• hoseja 2y ago
  Not quite to the level of hunt-and-pecking but unless you are typing up reams of boilerplate, typing speed really isn't a bottleneck to intelectual work with a computer.
  • SoleilAbsolu 2y ago
    I like being able to type fast enough to take meeting notes in realtime with minimal attention to what my fingers are doing. I find this method to be great for helping me actually remember what happened. FWIW I was a hunt & peck-er until I wrote my masters thesis in 2021, and touch typing is absolutely one of the most useful skills I've ever learned.
• dkjaudyeqooe 2y ago
  Same reason I didn't take a calligraphy class so I could handwrite. Hunt and peck is perfectly functional for most typing. People can hunt and peck quite quickly. The question is do you type slowly or quickly, not which method you use.
• mindslight 2y ago
  I was never really interested in learning the touch typing technique and basically just kept advancing hunt and peck into a kind of floating hands style. My registration to key positions is based more off the outer keys on the keyboard. Switching keyboards takes longer to get used to the new one. Using random keyboards or typing while standing I'm generally back to looking at the keys. Sitting down at my partner's desk and using their keyboard with blank keycaps is seriously annoying. I've clocked about 140wpm on my own keyboards though, so shrug. My real question is how do people keep at "hunt and peck" and not eventually get quicker? And how do people use things like touchscreen phone keyboards to compose anything longer than ten words, not getting frustrated and giving up?