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Wow have you guys seen this? Think of how much more efficient you could be in your life if you learned this hack

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-best-life-hack-for-2018-that-isnt-on-any-life-hack-list-40fe3548e656

>Touch Typing has been a completely overlooked skill that is quite possibly one of the best life hacks anyone can learn without making any radical changes to your life or redefining who you are or anything.
>Definition
Touch Typing is the ability to type into a computer relying on touch alone. You never need to look down at the keyboard. You can type using purely muscle memory and no longer use ‘active’ thinking to work out how to type letters and words.
>This means that, in the long run, you can type much faster without the constraints of looking down at the keys and flicking back up to the screen to see what you typed. This can let you progress onto skills such as being able to transcribe audio as it happens and to make notes super fast, or just be able to write emails in the dark or whilst talking to someone else you can carry on working.

>> No.11008350

>>11008337
no fucking way how have i never heard of this before? is this even real? im doubting anybody could actually do this in real life.

>> No.11008354

>We are early adopters

>> No.11008355

how do i learn this skills sir

>> No.11008362

>>11008337
This is a life hack? Dont people just do this after a month of using a keyboard?

Jesus christ, just how incompetent are millennials?

>> No.11008375
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>>11008337
>What's a "hack"?

>> No.11008376

>>11008354
based and redpilled

>> No.11008381

>>11008337

I'm a teacher and you'd be surprised by how many kids who are unable to touch type, but can text ultra fast.

>> No.11008386

>>11008337
I’ve been doing this since like 2008

>> No.11008389

I learned how to do this in 7th grade

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

>> No.11008392
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Rakshit changed his life upon mastering this hack. How inspiring!

>> No.11008400

Only matters if youre a wageslaving by typing out pointless shit

>> No.11008425

>>11008389
haha, that sentence. Had to type that a thousand times. Helped me alot though

>> No.11008448

jesus christ this is ridiculous who doesnt know how to touch type

>> No.11008451

>>11008337
I've been able to do this since 2006. How are people just now discovering it?

>> No.11008492
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>>11008337
>Absolute state of zoomers

>> No.11008505

>>11008389
*Jumps

>> No.11008509

Yeah I learned this in high school. Seemed like a meme at the time but it was the most useful thing I learned in high school by far.

>> No.11008517

Touch typing is for fags and Secretaries wearing fucking ear pieces. When the fuck do you ever need to type that much...

The truth is its not the screen u need to be looking at all the time. That was useful when we used old typewriters but with spell check etc even with an essay i just type looking at the keyboard and then later put it into shape.

>> No.11008530

>>11008517
how old are you?

>> No.11008543

Touch typing using the home row is just one efficient way of typing.

You can learn "touch typing" incorrectly and still make it. Typing without looking at the keyboard is the easy part.

>> No.11008556

>Piano teacher insisted I always look at sheet music when playing
>Music school (((audition))) (i.e. determining how rich your parents really are) made me play from memory

Why do they do this?

>> No.11008564

>>11008556
>made me play from memory
>not knowing a piece by heart after playing it a few times
pleb

>> No.11008570

>>11008564
I could play from memory easily, but the point was why was my piano teacher being such a bitch about it

>> No.11008576

>>11008389
>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
BLAST FROM THE MOTHERFUCKIN PAST LOL

>> No.11008579

>>11008337
srsly, wtf is wrong with you guys?

>> No.11008580

>>11008389
MAVIS BEACON IN THIS BITCH

>> No.11008583

>>11008570
I know what you mean, I always pretended to look at the sheets even though I could play everything from memory

>> No.11008591

>>11008337

>not learning how to do this as a child in 3rd grade

And I grew up in the fucking 90s, what kind of shitty school doesn't teach you this or have some sort of computer class where you speed typing? Hell zoomers can not only do this even younger, they can also swipe text faster than any boomer millenial ever could.

>> No.11008602

>>11008362

This sounds like a boomer meme. Millenials learned how to touch type in school, just like boomers did for type writers. Nothing changed.

>> No.11008606 [DELETED] 

>>11008362
millenials are almost as bad with pcs as boomers, not joking

>> No.11008616

If touch typing isn't so natural to you you had to think to even know what the word means, you might be a NPC.

>> No.11008620
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You get lots of practice touch-typing when you do most of your typing in the dark.

>> No.11008639

lol we had a class in middle school where the computer teacher covered the keyboards with a plastic film so we couldn't see the keys and thats how we learned to touch type

also runescape

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11008663

you want a real life hack, kids? read this book

>> No.11008677

>>11008505
T H I S
H
I
S

>> No.11008742

I learned how to do this back in fucking 2nd grade. They literally had pieces of cloth covering your hands so you couldn't cheat and look at the keys.

>> No.11008747

touch typing isn't a skill.

>> No.11008767
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>>11008337
How do I invest in this?

>> No.11008771

>>11008337
this is the crazyness the bear brings.

>> No.11008775

>>11008337
is that a joke article?

>> No.11008791

>>11008337
You people need to look at the keyboard when you type? Jesus fucking christ.

>> No.11008800

>>11008337
How does anyone not automatically learn this? I'd say nearly 100% of anyone under 60 knows how to type without looking down on the keyboard.

>> No.11008801

>>11008337

>life hack

You have to back..

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>>11008337
i cant tell tell if this is irony or not
if yes, kinda funny i guess? laughing at retards isnt great
if no, this is just sad and i wish hitler was still around

>> No.11008827

>>11008389
>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
That's wrong. It's:

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

>> No.11008838

>>11008791
Right? This qualifies as life hack now? Fucking normies. On the other hand, does that mean that my basic motor skills are something that I can put on a CV now?

>> No.11009034

>>11008818
>irony
Satire is the word you're looking for.

>> No.11009559

>>11008350

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>>11008337
this is way too fucking hard, are u fucking kidding me? who honestly thinks this is realistic?

>> No.11009701

>not touch typing in dvorak configuration
Plebs get out of the way, real life hacker coming through.

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WTF do you mean? Do you mean people ACTUALLY watch the keys? How do they operate a computer in a dark room then...?

>> No.11009883

In 5 years max we will al type with out brain waves, what use is it to learn touch typing now, if you don't know it already

>> No.11009922

>>11008337
wow this HACK made me get RICH quick
honestly you have to be retarded to not know how to touch type

>> No.11009934

>implying that its possible to type without looking at the keyboard

>> No.11009936

>>11008616
Kek.

>> No.11009978

>>11009922
Fuck of. I can play the piano without looking but not touch type. If you never tried it it is kind of hard.
Try to learn it since a few weaks.

>> No.11010017

>>11008337
Kinda ironic that real lifehack hidden in this picture is synesthetic learning and not blind typing.

>> No.11010203

>>11008827
Nah its
>The quick white man jumps over a lazy nigger

>> No.11010262

>>11008389
I was taught this in third grade w almena (30 yr old boomer here). that sucked though and never made me better at typing. I only ever learned how to touch type after I wasted my life on the internet

>> No.11010306

i self taught me this in couple of weeks with this free ware programm
www.tipp10.com

>> No.11010316

>>11008337
>office job
LMAO

>> No.11010317

What about shortcuts?

>> No.11011188

I learned my own 8-10 finger system over the years and now I'm trying to learn to do it by the book because I felt I'm hovering too much over the keyboard with my hands. However, some keys feel really unnatural with the new system due to having very short index and very long middle fingers. Should I keep trying to change or stick with what feels natural?

>> No.11011240

>>11008392
I thought this was a fake name and was pleasantly surprised.

>> No.11011282

>>11008381
Yep. Makes me wonder if a new type of keyboard might become popular in future. Still qwerty but narrower/taller in a scale closer to vertical cell screen. Maybe a hand held thing with shift/function/caps lock on the underside like a vidya controller sort of thing. Keypad on the top used with thumbs, alt keys on bottom side used with fingers.

>> No.11011341

>>11008556
Interesting. I teach guitar/bass and generally encourage students to commit songs to memory as soon as they are able as it makes it easier for them to focus on technique/tempo when they're not focused so much on sightreading.

I don't see what benefit there would be to insisting students play off sheet music for songs they already know.

>> No.11011486

>>11008543
i do it incorrectly but efficiently with only 4 fingers. i only managed to get good at it because of a mmorpg i played in middle school.

never used computers at school until high school.

>> No.11011548

>>11008337
>2018
>there are still people that need to look at the keyboard while typing

top fucking kek
haven't looked at the keybord while writing for the past 13years of my life

>> No.11011570

>>11008389
I want the quick brown fox to jump on me and then fuck me in the ass

>> No.11011966

>>11008337
What shithole are you from... In my country its maditory class in high school

>> No.11012059

>>11008747
it's the difference between fast food and admin assistant jobs for people with no skills

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>>11008375
>not mailing in a physically typed out virus to your company's headquarters in the late 80s
never going to make it

>> No.11012627

>>11008337
Who else on that mavis beacon grind ayyy this shit was taught in like 4th grade ya boomies

>> No.11012901

>>11008350
Wtf lol. I learned to touch type automatically by spending way too much time on the internet. I assumed all you autists could do this automatically.

>> No.11012927

>>11012627
i learned on stickybear typing loaded from 5 1/4 floppies on an apple IIgs

>> No.11012965

>>11012901
I think he is being sarcastic

>> No.11013011

>>11008337
Touch typing QWERTY keyboard, non Dvorak. The current state of cucks in 2018

>> No.11013046

>>11011341
If you have any poor students, make sure to start telling them to read off the sheet so that they'll fail if they ever try to be accepted by upper class society.

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>>11012627
Mavis Beacon was the fucking shit, that DNA splicing game was top tier

Seriously though, thank God they taught us to touch type while we were young

>> No.11013066

>>11008350
the fuck you autists can't do this? I can type automatically at like 120wpm. This took less than 30 seconds to type.

>> No.11013069

>>11012901
I didn't even know people called it "touch" typing, I just call it typing

>> No.11013160

>>11008337
>Be me
>In primary school learning to type
>Teacher had everyone using type to learn, you “level up” as you complete more exercises
>Teacher told me to stop looking at the keyboard while I type
>Typing much slower than before, kids start leveling past me
>Didn’t want to lose, continue looking at the keyboard while I type
>Fast forward 15 years later, I still type the same way
Granted, I can type much faster when I look at the keys and with more accuracy too, but I fucked myself over in the long run
>BRO HOW DO YOU TYPE IN THE DARK!?!
I don’t, at night I take my ass to sleep like a normal fucking person

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>being good at typing is a life hack

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>>11008620

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>>11008389
>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

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>>11008337
I can touch type but only know how to type using two fingers.

>> No.11013339

>>11013182
Did he die?

>> No.11013419

I type 100% with only two thumbs

>> No.11013543

>>11011570
I didnt learn that one

>> No.11013560

>>11008663
>be 11 at school
>have to wear glasses
>get teased for doing so
>decide to stop wearing them
>cant see shit
>have to learn to remember things from the teacher saying it only once
>works better than expected
>never have to study again because knowledge just sticks
who whouldve thought