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Same. Can touch type accurately while maintaining eye contact during a meeting. Young people find it unnerving.


Just did this today. When people ask I tell them I'm a big Ray Charles fan.


What? You guys are talking about this as if touch typing is some rare skill. I'm pretty sure everyone around the office touch-types, all my friends definitely do.


A shocking number of my colleagues never learned. It’s no longer routinely taught in school. Many people have to look at their fingers when they type. This includes people who write code for a living.


I worked at FAANG and at a few mid tier companies and in my experience that hasn’t been the case with majority of my coworkers surprisingly


Huh, really? I'm very surprised, I'll look around the office with more intention and take an informal mental poll.


Yeah - definitely there's always a few engineers with custom keyboards who type like 200wpm but on average its folks who seem to look down occasionally and type fairly slow (noticable when they're screensharing)




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