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Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Swipe keyboards are way more efficient, try it out of you have time.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tried using swipe typing before and honestly I'm just faster typing normally.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah, autocorrect is bad enough without the extra emphasis on it with swipe.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

It's vastly better when you need to type with one hand

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HelloHotel@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 2 months ago

I don't know, it was a very long time ago. Maybe do a search, based on your interests?

[–] clif@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Slashnet still exists and it's fairly active depending on the channel. #xkcd was bumping last time I checked my client.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] don@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Can confirm, it’s worth the effort.