I was thinking about this after noticing that my psychiatrist is a hunt-and-peck typist.
I learned to touch-type when I was 11. My middle school had a "keyboarding" class for sixth graders and somehow I convinced myself it was fun because we got to use computers.
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though weirdly enough, if i can't see my keyboard, my brain freaks out and is like YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO TYPE JACKASS
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This is a problem with touchscreen keyboards as it's basically like I _have_ to look at the keyboard. To some extent, after getting a bit more used to it, it's like playing the violin -- where there are no frets so you just have to rely on muscle memory and sight to hit points correctly, rather than being subtly guided by feeling things in the right places.
Also I do type far more quickly than I use the mouse. Not that the latter is slow because I've kinda had to learn to adapt to doing things quickly on the computer in general, but it's just that using the mouse is still a significant speed drop compared to doing things on keyboard, especially because I can make inputs on keyboard in very rapid successsion.
Being an ancient person, when I was a kid nobody was on the internet or used text messaging or anything like that. So other kids at school would be amazed at my typing speed, something I don't think would happen today.
Sometimes I slow down so as to hide my power level.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I was homeschooled until I was 10, so i have a lot of experience with edutainment games. Remember Cluefinders? Man, that was a good series