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Duh. They use phones mostly. A lot of the gen z people I know are just as bad as boomers with tech. Millennials and gen x had that sweet spot of "actually having to learn how shit works not just iphone go brrr."
They also stopped teaching typing in schools. My younger family members never had an computer class or a typing class.
Anything beyond ~2002 became worse than the predecessor in IT related tasks.
Yep. And phone typing is the 'hunt and peck' method of keyboard typing. Which is unfortunate because it's ingraining the slowest way to type onto a whole generation.
Swipe keyboards are way more efficient, try it out of you have time.
Tried using swipe typing before and honestly I'm just faster typing normally.
Yeah, autocorrect is bad enough without the extra emphasis on it with swipe.
It's vastly better when you need to type with one hand
It works well for casual conversation. But if you're trying to have a technical conversation it will fail on uncommon or custom words or phrases.
Autocorrect begs to differ, usually only when the word is out of my field of vision.
I took typing, on typewriters, but got efficient years later on IRC and ICQ. 60+more wpm. I'm still fairly proficient on a familiar KB too.
any good IRC servers left or did it all move to discord? Ive been meaning to get on an IRC server thats not just a mirror of the in-game chat of the game I play.
I don't know, it was a very long time ago. Maybe do a search, based on your interests?
Slashnet still exists and it's fairly active depending on the channel. #xkcd was bumping last time I checked my client.
Gen Z here, most of my online life is on IRC. Learned about its existence a couple years ago. It is very much alive, although most people left there are at least semi-technical, and I miss the non-technical crowd.
Can confirm, it’s worth the effort.
There's a mode where you swipe your finger over each letter in order and it auto completes the word. Not sure how often younger people use it (though I wasn't aware you could do that until I saw someone younger doing it).
Sounds like predictive T9 but slower
T9 was supreme.
No it’s actually way faster. You can swipe whole words in less than a second. It’s like writing with pen and paper but each letter is actually a whole word.
Yeah, I'm a swiper myself and I can't imagine anyone being able to swipe without knowing the keyboard layout like one would for typing.
A swiping motion and muscle memory for tapping are two different things. It took a while to get fast with my thumbs even though I type fairly fast on a keyboard.
I'm early gen z (mid-twenties now), I've have had a touch-screen phone since I was 13, but somehow I am still awful at typing on it. I don't understand how this is a skill people are actually good at. Here's typing test I just did on my phone (the monkeytype website). Look at all those errors, and I was actually trying to do good.
I know people who will write entire emails from their phone and I just don't understand how. I've literally written texts on my computer, and then copied it to my phone to send instead of typing on the touch screen.
In comparison, on my computer with my lovely low-profile mechanical keyboard.
One difference is that the touch-screen typists rely heavily on autocorrect. I don't think they're actually as accurate as you think - their spelling and typo errors are being covered up more than yours on the desktop computer.