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Do there exist modern information workers who can't touch type?
Yes, hence auto-complete.
I can type. I use auto-complete all the time.
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Re: Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
#12If there was a eighth one, I would add learning to touch type. Groking VIM becomes easy when you can type fast.
Do there exist modern information workers who can't touch type?
I've worked with a number of engineers in Europe who couldn't type without looking at the keyboard. I assumed that it's not part of every school curriculum there. Or maybe they learned and then went back to hunt-and-peck afterwards.
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Yes, definitely. Anything that you can imagine, there's a huge constituency that isn't capable of doing things you think are basic
Who are they? What do they do?
Everything. Touchtyping is just not a focus in school any more. Teachers look funny at you when you ask when the kids start touchtyping. They are expected to figure it out themselves. Very funny.
Re: Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
#14I must ask: how many people actually use the right shift key when typing? I have grown accustomed to only using my left and was wondering if others shared this behavior.
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#15Previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15532457 (~2 months ago, 237 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4620065 (~5 years ago, 66 comments)
All submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=moolenaar.net
Re: Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
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Yes, definitely. Anything that you can imagine, there's a huge constituency that isn't capable of doing things you think are basic
Who are they? What do they do?
Anyone. I didn't learn to touch type and I'm about as fast as a touchtypist. Indeed, my typing speed went down when I started learning and because I didn't finish, hasn't really recovered since. 99% of programming is thinking and structuring though, so touch-typing isn't all that useful.
https://phys.org/news/2016-02-ten-fingers-fast.html
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/9427-you-d...
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c366/89b3803e8744b14bc50998...
Re: Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
#17I must ask: how many people actually use the right shift key when typing? I have grown accustomed to only using my left and was wondering if others shared this behavior.
I use both, depending on what side of the keyboard the other character is on :-)
Re: Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
#18I must ask: how many people actually use the right shift key when typing? I have grown accustomed to only using my left and was wondering if others shared this behavior.
I almost exclusively use left modifiers. I blame first person shooters.
Re: Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
#19I must ask: how many people actually use the right shift key when typing? I have grown accustomed to only using my left and was wondering if others shared this behavior.
I use the right shift/ctrl/alt keys along with the keys under the left hand, and vice versa.
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Who are they? What do they do?
Anyone. I didn't learn to touch type and I'm about as fast as a touchtypist. Indeed, my typing speed went down when I started learning and because I didn't finish, hasn't really recovered since. 99% of programming is thinking and structuring though, so touch-typing isn't all that useful. https://phys.org/news/2016-02-ten-fingers-fast.html http://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/9427-you-d... https://pdfs.se…
Do you really spend 1% of your programming time typing? I find that hard to believe.