I taught myself a personal typing style, because I found touch typing to be awkward, unpleasant and quite frankly shitty to follow.

So yeah, not okay with the implications that not knowing those lines means not knowing how to type.

The last keyboard I built I went with blank keycaps to force myself to learn to fully use the keyboard without looking.

Is anybody gonna tell this oblivious 30 year old who's not particularly bad at typing what the lines are for?

That's the nipples. You rub em and the keyboards like 'hey fj r over here!'

The best typing training I ever got was IRC. You had to learn to type fast or some idiot wouldn't know how wrong he was.

This definitely prepared me for a career where 90% of my interaction with coworkers is via chat.

I grew up with a computer in the 80s and for years i would stare at the keyboard while mentally keeping track of what I was typing.

I took keyboarding in middle school and learned to touch type but it took years of practice to break the habits I formed as a child.

Now I'll be typing something and my husband will walk in so I'll pause and look over to see what he needs. One time he said "don't stop on my account" so I started typing again while staring at him.

I can hold a full conversation while doing this but have to slow down to around 60wpm to avoid transcribing the conversation.

As my 13yo would say, "why? I can just voice to text"

They're not just lines, they're bumps. Haptic feedback as the kids say.

I was never told, but I always assumed it was to orient yourself without looking, and that's where the index fingers go when hands are resting on the keyboard.

Tbf, I very rarely type with perfect form like that. Maybe for short bursts when I'm doing an assignment but in like every other case I keep my right hand on the mouse and do any hot keys with just my left hand. Granted thats mainly a gaming thing but also in like GIMP or blender

Something tells me that even if they taught typing, whoever's asking that question wouldn't have paid attention in that class anyway.

... or they know perfectly well and this is just another shitty clickbait post to generate engagement.

People look at me like I'm taking crazy pills when I bring up The Typing of the Dead. Literally House of the Dead with a keyboard. You type or you die. It brings that Dark Souls energy to Mavis Beacon's doorstep.

Having a booth for a PC game at conventions used to be difficult because people were not familiar with keyboard and mouse controls. If you weren't prepared for this you basically had to quickly add controller support somehow and send someone from your team to the next electric store and to buy a bunch of controllers.

Nowadays, though? Game convention visitors these days barely know how to hold a controller. They keep poking at the screens, hoping something happens. It's a frustrating experience for indie devs sometimes.

So yeah I'm not surprised when people look at keyboards like they're some kind of ancient slate.

I tried learning how to type properly but my hand joints have always been shitty so I do what I can. I also grew up PC gaming and that influenced how I type. My boss asked me if I learned to type after I started gaming and I was like "yeah." And he said, "I can tell"

As a blind computer user I'm shocked at how many people forget touch typing exists. I learned earlier than most, by necessity, and didn't have to take the then-mandatory keyboarding classes in middle school.