# Things they didn't teach us older people.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-didnt-teach-us-older-people/621396 "2012-05-09T15:20:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-didnt-teach-us-older-people/621396/41 "2012-05-13T17:30:57Z")

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> [@RandMcnally](#):
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> I graduated high school in '04 so I’m still fairly young. I had at least one typing class a semester for three consecutive years.

Indeed. Keyboarding is a class my students still take.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-didnt-teach-us-older-people/621396/42 "2012-05-13T21:06:46Z")

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For many years I typed “hunt-n-peck” with two fingers from each hand. Then one day it occurred to me that i knew where all the keys were, they never moved, and there’s no reason to look at them. So I put my fingers in the “home” position, closed my eyes, and started typing. It took a while to get my speed up, but there was no problem after that. Do people really have to take classes for this?

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-didnt-teach-us-older-people/621396/43 "2012-05-13T21:16:20Z")

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I wasn’t taught how to grow a smart phone out of the skin of my hand so that I am never, ever without it poised in a usable position.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-didnt-teach-us-older-people/621396/44 "2012-05-13T21:16:29Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> For many years I typed “hunt-n-peck” with two fingers from each hand. Then one day it occurred to me that i knew where all the keys were, they never moved, and there’s no reason to look at them. So I put my fingers in the “home” position, closed my eyes, and started typing. It took a while to get my speed up, but there was no problem after that. Do people really have to take classes for this?

You had a head start. If you don’t know the keyboard layout, you have to learn it someplace!

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