6.26 English Learning
People born before 2000, what trivial skill you possess that others don't use anymore?
Remember when we had to have a typing speed of atleast 60wpm to be considered for an office job, lol
I had to pass a typing test for a call center job in 2020, lol. 60 wpm, 98% accuracy or higher
I credit AIM for my typing skills. I'm a millennial and type at 120+ wpm consistently.
I managed a call center in the past, nowadays it seems like the typical speed needed is only 30 wpm which is so incredibly painfully slow that I'm always shocked when people barely hit it.
I had a guy show up for an interview once, I left him in the interview room with the computer set up for his typing test and computer literacy test (had to make sure people knew what a browser was, how to use the internet, save documents, etc). Candidates could take as many cracks at the test as they wanted. After a full hour I was like okay man it's time to go, I pop in the room and he's like oh great! I'm almost done warming up, I'll be ready to take the test in a minute. I tell him hey man, it's been an hour, whatever you have is what you have. I check the computer and for the past hour all this guy has done is the typing test. His fastest speed was 23 wpm. He didn't even get around to the computer literacy portion.
This is wild to me. Nobody has basic typing skills anymore. Not to mention basic computer literacy. The amount of questions I've been asked about the most basic of things is bewilering. I once had someone legitimately ask why there was a capital A light on their keyboard because they didn't know what caps lock was.
Millennials are basically in a techno literate bubble.
We, generally, know more than Gen X and older. While we also know more than Gen Z and after.
Edit: I'm sorry Gen X'ers! I'd argue MOST of you are probably that weird hybrid Generation though. Every Gen X person I know in the 45+ age range can barely hook up a wi-fi router. My boss is Gen X (younger) though and runs circles around me.
There’s a Goldilocks zone for using a computer and even knowing just basic shit and I feel extremely fortunate to fall in it. I wouldn’t even consider myself computer savvy at all for my generation (92) but compared to some of the older and younger folks in the workforce the fact I can use windows competently and do basic functions on a spreadsheet is top tier these days apparently
Younger Gen X too. (Sometimes called the Oregon Trail generation) Anyone who successfully got a sound card working in DOS has at least basic computer skills.
My first computer was in 3rd grade, bought from sears by my parents. I’m not joking, sears. They sold computers in the late 1980’s, just like an appliance.
It was windows 3.1, which meant literally all applications needed to be run from DOS. Again, I was in third grade. Do you know what it’s like to teach a 3rd grader DOS commands and syntax?
Let me tell you who my teacher in all this was, when I was in third grade: the customer support hotline for Sears. I literally learned DOS over a landline phone from a customer service agent. Whatever that person made per hour was not enough, what a saint to be so calm and polite with a kid that didn’t understand why I couldn’t just load up Oregon Trail like I did Castlevania on my NES
Yes! I have the speed! And I can look at you while I’m typing!
I was typing something recently and turned my head to talk and type at the same time, my daughter was blown away that I could do that!
My work thinks I'm a witch and leave offerings for me (Jolly ranchers) bc I'm able to do this. It's that and I'm also able to catch when I make a mistake and backspace and rewrite without looking. I actually make more mistakes when I look!
It's so bizarre that it's magic to people, when I grew up and that was normal
Back in the early 2000s a coworker tried to prank me and sprayed my keyboard white so I could not see the letters. He popped in saying I need to do this " work" quick. Grabbed it, logged in and started banging it out while smiling looking only at the document.
Thank you IRC, you did what no teacher would have been able to
Asl : 42 m earth
Do they... do they not need that anymore?!?
Most places only require 30 wpm from what I've seen which is crazy considering it is 2025 and people should be able to type faster than even 60 wpm with 98% accuracy
Younger people are using traditional computers (and their keyboards) less often than millennials did. Overall computer literacy is declining.
They don't teach typing in school anymore either. It was required at my school. I keep meaning to have my kids do an online typing class but not getting around to it.
Memorize phone numbers
My mom used to take the phone off the hook in her bedroom and deadbolt the door so we couldn't use the phone. I actually had phone numbers of the payphones I could get to on my bike memorized. (That was a very old-fashioned sentence I just said.) I would give those out as my phone number and when someone said they were going to call me, I would just ride my bike up to that phone and wait for the call. I don't know if anyone ever found out that it wasn't my home number.
My favorite one was McDonald's. The phone was in a vestibule at the back entrance that was rarely used, so I had a lot of privacy. It was also indoors, so even though there were a couple payphones closer to my house, I could get out of the rain or cold using the McDonald's one.
There's still a handful of payphones that still work. Any time I find one, I try to call the number on it from my cellphone. Every now and then I find one where the payphone itself rings when called. When that happens, I save the number in my phone and call it when I'm bored, knowing full well that if anybody picks up, it'll be some random person who is hearing a payphone ring likely for the first time in their life and is curious to answer it.
There's various things that could be done here, but my favorite is to fuck with them, like saying "The package is in the location we discussed, do not be late!"
Dude, hell yeah. Thanks for making the world a little cooler; keep it up 👍
"Wake up, they miss you." to mind fuck them.
My friend changed his phone number. He's had it for more than 20 years. It was one of the four (working) phone numbers I can still recall from memory. Now I'm down to 3. Gotta hope somebody answers if I need bail money and I don't have my phone!
I know the secret to recording over VHS tapes that weren’t meant for it.
The real forgotten skill was to pause recording a tv show when it went to break and then start it back up when coming back from commercial without clipping part of the show itself.
I was obsessed with getting this perfect. Somewhere in my childhood garage are boxes and boxes of my bootleg Simpsons tapes.
Same, except it's the first couple of seasons of South Park
That little piece of tape didn’t stand a chance
Sellotape? Worked for cassettes and floppy disks too.
yup
Any why would you do that other than to splice the squeel like a pig scene from deliverance onto a random part of my little sisters VHS copy of the little mermaid?
Sebastian has a point about life on dry land being overrated
My penmanship is trash, but my ability to read cursive handwriting appears to be a superpower to my younger coworkers.
I recently did a lot of genealogy research for my family and I loved deciphering these beautiful, if somewhat unintelligible, documents from 100+ years ago. I have horrendous penmanship and it makes me very jealous, but it's like playing detective which is awesome.
Hey, did you know you can volunteer to help transcribe historic documents? I know the National Archives and The Smithsonian have programs, and probably other museums do as well. You can do as much or as little as you want, and the National Archive let's you choose the types of documents that interest you. Not sure about The Smithsonian. I've been thinking about signing up myself.
do you know if this is still true? I don't really trust anything I took for granted as verifiable more than five or six months ago, and the librarian of Congress is already gone because this clown show wants to rewrite history
I wonder how the National Archive is holding up, because that sounds like a lot of fun
Part of my work duties involved scanning, digitizing, and archiving homicide files from 1919 to 1994, and the handwriting is exquisite. It's artwork.
And I'm over here, scratching out scrawl like I've never met a pen before.
This is the one that blows my mind. I have a co-worker that regularly ask me to read notes of an older co-worker and he has beautiful almost perfect copper print cursive.
He can read my half-print half chicken scratch though.
Should you be so inclined, you can volunteer your skills to a variety of historic archives that are working to digitize and transcribe their old documents! This will make them searchable to researchers and the public. The Smithsonian Transcription Center is one, but googling some variation of “historic transcription projects” will show others
Wait, are we at a point where the ability to read cursive is consider translation?!
Adding this puppy to my resume!!
Someone recently came in with a cursive handwritten resume and our receptionist couldn't read it. I'm not even that old. I read it just fine, the person had great penmanship. It made me feel old and I'm not even 40 lol!
When I write fast I still do half print and half cursive.
They should be hired purely for their audacity
I can unwind spiral telephone cords when they get a kink!
Slinkies too
Do they like to be tied up?
Yeah they do, the little sluts.
I can text like crazy fast on a t9 keypad lol
No lie - this paid off recently: I moved and my printer has a t9 type keypad which you have to use to input the WiFi password (which is long as heck). My niece and nephew (born late 2000s) could NOT make it work. I was like step aside and let me show you the sacred texts.
I was like step aside and let me show you the sacred texts.
Watch this elder scroll
The flex was being able to text your friends under the desk at school without looking at the screen. Then peeking to see a response.
While keeping under 140 characters to not have to pay for 2 texts!
Gods, I remember telling a girl I liked her on text back then. This was like a Friday night and she text back she liked me too and I ran out of money. She lived a few villages away so I wouldn't see her until the following Monday at school; I ran up to the corner shop first thing the next day to top up my phone again.
5 quid gave me 50 texts! It was a different time back then.
The insane limitations of early cellular networks! I never texted because 10 cents per seemed insane when I could call and say the same thing in 15 seconds.
BUT...
I once pocket dialed my voicemail for an HOUR, which counted against my 180 minutes of calling that month.
I used the internet on my phone and my mom ended up getting a 400 dollar cell phone bill lol
The panic when you hit the wrong button and the internet loading icons started popping up
Then wondering how your teacher knew what you were up to.
To quote my favorite teacher: "nobody looks at their crotch randomly and giggles"
To quote my favorite teacher: "nobody looks at their crotch randomly and giggles"
My kids do
Wife was teaching HS in that era and had grudging respect for the girls who seemed to be giving the teachers their full attention while texting 30 wpm under their desk.
I freaked my ex girlfriend out hard once because I was typing a reply on reddit when she came over to talk to me. I just kept typing as she was talking to me and it freaked her out.
So then I started replying to her by typing out my responses instead of saying them while staring her dead in the eyes, she just about had a stroke.
I'd have full conversations across the school without even having to look at my fingers texting, now I can't spell anything on my iPhone without the touchscreen messing something up...
Being able to type accurately and fast on a T9 without looking was the ultimate skill back in the day.
Was literally put on resumes
Remember no look texting with one hand, because your phone had buttons and T9 was better at predictive text that smartphone keyboards?
t9 was ridiculously good at predictive text. todays autocorrect is trash compared to it.
That's the algorithm Stephen Hawking's pad used for his text to voice. Used eye tracking for alphanumeric input then the t9 bar above the keyboard and finally the sentence that he was building on top.
I very very nearly was able to join the team that worked on his technology at a former employer... but didn't make the cut. It was a super prestigious team to be on, and you had other jobs to do too, but damn... I wish I had the ability to say I worked on his tech stack.
If I could still have a physical keypad, I would. The blackberry was my favorite phone in terms of functionality. I’m buzzing around NYC for work and either T9 or the blackberry keyboard would make my life so much easier when I’m on the move. The touchscreen just needs too much focus, but I guess I could talk to text? Maybe I’m just stupid
I prefer the physical keypad because I made fewer errors due to the raised buttons. Smartphone keypads drive me nuts, because I can’t be okay letting mistakes stand so I’m constantly fixing shit.
Physical keyboards are superior but I think I've gotten used to the touch screen. However, now "smart" phones have started autocorrected words that are spelled correctly. Because for some reason it thinks you actually meant to type a completely different word. So you have to watch for it just randomly changing up words on you so you can go back and manually correct thoses.
That’s a rare superpower now, respect
I used to be a projectionist at a movie theatre. Most theaters are all digital now.
OP said trivial, you sir.... Are a god among ants
We were certainly the cool kids at the theater.
I remember when I discovered the "cigarette burns" in the corner of the movie that would show up every 10 minutes or so signaling a reel change. Cool stuff.
Me too! Still to this day is probably my favorite job I've ever had. I used to put the trailers together on the reels. We (employees) had viewing parties when we screened the movies the night before a release to make sure it was all spliced together correctly and take out frames with those holes or ridges in the film. It was a lot of fun, most of us that worked there were friends. Everyone would cheer and holler when the projectionist "on duty" had to run up to the booth to fix something. I saved a strip of film from Matrix and a couple other movies.
Rewind a cassette tape
With a Bic pen
Or a pencil.
Installing software via 10+ floppy disks. Anyone else install Windows 95 from a stack of floppies?
Using pkzip to archive across multiple floppies... and then the feeling when you get to your friend's house and disk 12 of 15 is unreadable.
How to use a map AND fold it back up the right way
The folding is where they get you!
Last time I had to use a map I had taken a wrong turn at the freeway interchange. I stopped at a gas station, figured out where I was and plotted a course towards home.
Was it the fastest way home? Absolutely not. Did I get home? Yup. Was my friend super confused when she woke up and we were in the Bay area instead of Stockton? Also yes.
Keeping a Tamagotchi alive for more than 3 days.
See, now we know you're lying
Excuse me, I was elite in pixel pet care.
I can both write a check and I can address an envelope to mail it to you.
Please do
Also, letter formatting. When I was in school, personal letters and business letters were still a thing and there was a correct format for what information went where, spacing, indents, etc.
Reading a map
My mom was into antiques so garage sales were an every weekend thing. She’d get the classified out and circle all the ones she wanted to hit then put them in order by which she wanted to hit first. I was the map reader in the car as she drove.
Oh my god you have the exact same childhood experience as I do
My family often drove from PA to NV and back in the 80s when I was under 10 and I was given the TripTiks (AAA custom maps) and other maps and given the "job" to follow the map. Sometimes I actually was needed to remind Dad to take an exit or find him a way back from a restaurant onto the Interstate, lol.
I guess I was the GPS. I very rarely need GPS or Google Maps to drive in about a 50 mile radius of my house, even on roads I've never been on. And I've never been a taxi/uber driver or delivery driver, and have only done doordash a handful of times.
Remarkable how useful this skill is for camping as well as traveling abroad. Maps aren’t just for ling distance, but for subways, buses, trains, etc. Although I’m sure the vast majority don’t consider transport as maps.
We frequently turn to maps when traveling the US by car. Nav is not all knowing.
Related, but I can read a road atlas and navigate a city with just that.
Certainly a rare skill, even back when it was the only option. Why are there no street signs? Is that the road you're looking for or just some dirt road, according to the map it's some kind of smaller road so it might be... From what I remember map navigation did endanger quite a few marriages.
I let the map blow out the window once and my then husband, the driver, said “It doesn’t matter. You couldn’t read it anyway “
I used to operate a keypunch card machine ... back in caveman days of the early 1970s.
My high school computer teacher thought it was important for us to read punch cards. I can still calculate the ASCII code, and I remember that "A" is 65.
Yeah, not really useful anymore.
Also, "a" is 97. As a software engineer, this knowledge is occasionally useful
There's a reason for that.
'A': 01000001
'a': 01100001Terminals in ye olden times could simply hook the shift key up to change that bit.
I can beat Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Like, a quarter of the time.
I can beat "The Lion King" for Sega Genesis.
This is honestly incredibly impressive.
Pics or gtfo
The ability to be alone with my thoughts for a few moments without losing my damn mind.
I mastered this when I was about 28. I was driving long haul at the time and walked out to my truck at after going inside a truck stop to eat and shower to find it was broken into. Radio, tv, and CB all gone. I would have spent a day getting new ones installed except it was a time sensitive load. Spent the next 6 days with nothing except books after I stopped for the night. After that I found I would just leave the stuff turned off half the day driving and not even notice. Been married 22 years and my wife still comments that its weird that I can just sit in a room alone with nothing going on and be fine, or on long drives just look out the window happily. And all the kids think its creepy, lol.
It’s crazy to me. If i have a wait in a restaurant or something I will just..wait. And it really stresses other people out! The reactions are so hilarious!
Not only that. You can probably relate: i can wait and completely enjoy the wait. lol
Reminds me of a favorite quote of mine.
Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Pascal said 'All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.'
I take a small chunk of pride being in a public space and one of the, if not the only one not on my phone.
People watching is one of my favorite things to do.
Weirder still, being able to spend time with people without taking my phone out of my pocket, while most other millennials, gen x, and even boomers can't seem to socialize without burying their face in their phone mid conversation....
I hate cell phones
spaces out
becomes Gandalf the white
Burning a CD.
I used to dial my friend's phone number by tapping the hang up buttons which simulated a rotary dial phone.
That’s a fun game. Unfortunately my friend’s number began with 9-2. We learned the hard way it’s very easy to actually dial 911
I learned about this while watching "Hackers"
Hack the planet!
Nice. “Pulse dialing” and most people had no idea that’s how rotary dials actually worked.
Memorising phone numbers
Might be aging myself here but dialing a rotary phone
I know lots of people will comment that they can write in cursive. This is painful but I can also write in shorthand. Well, to be more honest, I used to be able to write perfectly in shorthand but it still shows up in my regular writing sometimes.
Was coming on here to say shorthand! It was awesome
From the same set of skills: blind typing with 10 fingers. Some let's teach our future secretaries have their uses when you turn out to be a web dev too. But we did not learn short hand. I think I am younger than you.
My mom can do that! We thought it was so cool as a kid. She says they used to teach it in school
They did but it was almost exclusively for females. It was with the ideology that at some point in time we would be standing in front of a desk taking dictation. Good Lord, what a miserable vision for a young woman's future. I will admit it is nice for jotting down a quick note.
My schoolteachers in the 1970's were sadists and hated kids. They must have been told during this era - "You want to be a veterinarian? Pish tosh! - you can be a teacher, nurse, or secretary and that's it!" It was bleak, indeed.
damn! my grandfather taught me that! He was a stenographer for a British company in India pre-independence and he wanted me to learn it, and stupid me thought I would not! RIP grandpa....
Edit: There is a cool story behind my grandfather using shorthand. During one of the independence gatherings in my city, one of the prominent leaders was delivering an address and my grandfather was in the front row, taking notes in shorthand. The leader asked him what he was writing and my grandad replied that it was shorthand and it had the minutes of the meeting. The leader then asked him to come forward and read it out loud to the audience. He said that it was pretty cool and he actually got to meet the first prime minister of India (the leader delivering the address)
I tried to learn it on my own for my work using some books. I could not. It gets complicated really fast!
I can honestly say things like:
“I managed a video store,”
“I learned basic coding from making my MySpace page cool,”
And the ever popular
“I learned how to play the trumpet, French horn, and trombone in order to play in a ska band.”
I worked in a video store too, and I leaned html from customizing my LiveJournal. Now I’m a website manager — never took coding lessons/classes!
The Dewey Decimal System, motherfuckers.
“Don’t you know the Dewey Decimal System!!!!!!!”
Conan! The Librarian!
“I’m sorry, this is a little late” teehee
Found the angry librarian lol
They still have libraries y’know….
They do, but you don't need to know the Dewey decimal system to use one. It was pretty necessary back when they tracked everything with a card catalogue instead of a searchable computer system.
MySpace background layouts
I know who Tom is and why he’s my friend
I can write out “boobs” on a calculator.
Using a paperclip to fix bent pins on a CPU or IDE drive
Or open a CD-ROM drive with it.
The "double space after a period" muscle memory.
I remember in sixth grade my teacher told me she wanted a paper typed and double spaced. I didn’t know what that meant and my dad told me to put two spaces behind each period. This was not what the teacher meant.
For those confused, "double spaced" normally means leaving an entire line of empty space (vertically) between each line on the page. It's commonly used in education as it makes it easier to add handwritten notes and corrections.
I still do double spaces because of all the times I got in trouble in elementary school for not double spacing. Every teacher in my school back then had the policy that there always has to be 2 spaces after every period. The reason for this was that a single space apparently wasn't clearly visible enough on an Apple II screen.
It was probably a little over 5 years ago that I realized that wasn't the standard way of typing anymore. Once I was conscious of it, it was surprisingly easy to change my habit to a single space.
If you're typing on a phone nowadays, double tapping the space bar will automatically put a period at the end of your sentence, with one space after the period to begin typing. Super convenient.
Cleaning out Super Nintendo cartridges
The problem was corrosion. Blowing on them worked temporarily because the humidity on your breath increased their conductivity. but the humidity also increased the rate of corrosion
A better way is to use a soft toothbrush to brush them, it wears down the corrosion but not with humidity so tends to last longer.
ah i wanna read the answers hahah all of them
I know how to program a VCR.
A VCR is the machine we put tapes into to watch movies or record TV. It's what we used to use to watch movies & TV shows we recorded on before dvd's. Dvd's are what we used to watched movies on before Blu-ray. Blu-ray is what we used to watch movies on before streaming.
Laserdics were in there somewhere too. Fuck, I'm old
How to operate a blackberry
You just check if it’s ripe or has anything growing on it, give it a rinse and then enjoy right?
Or, if you're really lazy, just wipe the growing stuff and eat it.
Oooo that sweet roller ball action.
Im pretty good at navigating DOS commands
Long division
I can speed dial a rotary phone.
I can no look one handed type on a blackberry phone ( can't do it on my iPhone with Clicks due to the poor balance)
I still know Palm Pilot short hand.
Right way of typing, using all fingers to type.
Driving manual cars
I can use "Save As"
Print. Print Preview.
Run. Run as administrator.
How to use an actual printed dictionary
And the phone book. And the Yellow pages!
The yellow page is just out there doxing everybody
Not so much. The yellow pages is the commercial part of the phone book where business pay to exist. The White Pages section of the phone book was where people’s numbers and even addresses were listed. However the phone books of today don’t really seem to have white pages
HTML
Not just HTML, but I remember how to use tables to lay out a site instead of css.
as a web developer who started writing code in the late 90s, ah yes, the bad old days. which STILL EXIST in html emails!
How to use the Card library
I'm just offended that being born before 2000 is apparently unusual now.
I can weigh weed on a non digital scale.
I can fix a cassette tape with a pencil
I’m quite happy to spend unlimited time away from phones and the internet.
Counting change correctly. That's $3.64, out of $20? 36 cents makes four... (grab $1) five, (grab $5) ten, and (grab $10) ten makes twenty.
I had to pay $3.64 and I had some spare change and different sized bills, I’d give the cashier a $5 bill and 64 cents to make their lives easier. If I tried that now, many cashiers’ brains would bluescreen.
I can stack quarters on my elbow and catch them with the same hand. Record is 25 at once
Cursive handwriting. Spent hours on that in elementary school that could have been used for something useful, like learning a second language.
Go check out the National Archives. They had a volunteer transcriber program where you can transcribe old, cursive documents that AI can't figure it. I've been doing it for a year and I absolutely love it!
TIL that in our upcoming war against AI, my cursive skills will help achieve victory. You should probably stop free transcribing asap.
Hell, my print handwriting would probably still confuse AI
I can drive a manual. Still a thing these days, but theyre very rare and most people can't.
Almost every car in the UK is a manual but that’ll die out with the increase of electric cars.
Same in Ireland, I recently heard that the amount of applications for automatic only drivers tests went up 50% over the last year or something.
Its dying out, but it'll take a while. Hopefully my gearstick becomes an antitheft device soon.
Same. I can start and drive a manual car from the middle of a steep incline without rollback.
And pop a clutch if the battery is dead!
Same. I bought a new car that had a manual transmission right after my 18th birthday in the mid-90s. Now most manual transmissions are in high-end performance cars, and electric cars will make them completely obsolete soon.
I can talk to people I don’t know in person.
I have beautiful cursive!
All those square dancing lessons in elementary gym class
Slave drive or master drive?
I can drive a standard transmission car, read a map or MAPSCO, go a whole day without touching my phone, write in cursive, and fix almost anything that breaks in my house without paying a professional.
I can tell the time using an analog clock.
I’m a bit confused by this, honestly. Is this a running joke or regional or something? And I’m genuinely asking here if anyone else wants to chime in.
My son was in 1st grade and he regularly came home with homework that had analog clocks and how to read them. My buddies son is also in 1st grade at another school and he knows it. Same with my 8 year old niece, same with the two 2nd and 5th grade neighbor kids next door. They all know what analog clocks are and more or less how to read them depending on what grade.
These are all normal, public schools in Texas.
In my experience: this is not a joke. Yes kids get exposed to this as a lesson at some point, but then it goes into the bucket of things taught in school that are forgotten after that lesson.
At least the 21-25 year olds we hire in the field, it’s pretty often that they don’t get what “10 o clock” means as a relative direction because it’s an analog clock metaphor. Same with addressing an envelope — like they all admit they’ve seen this in school a long time ago but also admit they don’t exactly recall how.
Idk your age but I feel like there are random things that I, as a 35 year old, were taught in school and don’t know anymore because it’s not part of my daily life. They’ve made TV contests about this stuff before, where adults are in a trivia contest with grade schoolers. It’s more the content shifts over time.
EDIT: Balancing a checkbook is another good old timey example. GenZ and younger millenials don't understand why checkbooks come with that spreadsheet because they just open an app on their phone to check the balance. They surely can figure out how to do the task as if it's a homework puzzle, but most 40 year old adults can fluently do it as a basic life skill and it would be common sense WHY this was an important practice.
Cursive, stick shift, and I know how to work the lights and wipers in a car where it's just unmarked knobs.
Kids these days can’t touch type as often as someone born when computer labs were still a thing. I knew how by or before middle school (thanks mom!) and I’m seeing kids chicken pecking at a grade they shouldn’t be - definitely wouldn’t be at touch type yet but they should know finger placement at 2nd and can type bit by bit even if they have to watch what they’re doing on the keyboard. I’m thinking of trying to teach a bit on this next year if I can work it into the schedule some with teachers and the librarian.
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Fixing most of my own computer problems.
I read books.
Being able to go 5 mins w/o looking at my phone
I’m trying to re train my habits to stop doing this. I unconsciously pick up my phone EVERY TIME i have like 15 seconds, it’s awful
I know how to replace the ink ribbon on a typewriter.