Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways
by sevensor on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:39PM
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Same. Can touch type accurately while maintaining eye contact during a meeting. Young people find it unnerving.
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Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways
by Boogie_Man on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:54PM
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Just did this today. When people ask I tell them I'm a big Ray Charles fan.
Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways
by stavros on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:52PM
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What? You guys are talking about this as if touch typing is some rare skill. I'm pretty sure everyone around the office touch-types, all my friends definitely do.
Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways
by sevensor on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:15AM
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A shocking number of my colleagues never learned. It’s no longer routinely taught in school. Many people have to look at their fingers when they type. This includes people who write code for a living.
Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways
by absoluteunit1 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @07:50AM
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I worked at FAANG and at a few mid tier companies and in my experience that hasn’t been the case with majority of my coworkers surprisingly
Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways
by stavros on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @07:58AM
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Huh, really? I'm very surprised, I'll look around the office with more intention and take an informal mental poll.
Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways
by absoluteunit1 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:57AM
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Yeah - definitely there's always a few engineers with custom keyboards who type like 200wpm but on average its folks who seem to look down occasionally and type fairly slow (noticable when they're screensharing)