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𝜯𝐞𝐡 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐢 lemmy.world TehBamski@lemmy.world
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Entertainmeonly (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-08-17
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Dude using strong language.

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Entertainmeonly (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-08-17
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"Wait tell you hear this beat drop."

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Entertainmeonly (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-08-17
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How death metal started.

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Entertainmeonly (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-08-17
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"Do you even compose, bro?"

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jaschen306 sh.itjust.works jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-09
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The day I learn to 10 finger type is the day my brain was able to express itself outside my head.

I type around 100-120 words a minute. My brain still has to wait for my fingers, but it's so much better than writing.

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a_non_monotonic_function lemmy.world a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-10-22
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Damn. ADHD gainz.

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Tikiporch lemmy.world Tikiporch@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-03
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My kingdom for a eye.

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teslekova sh.itjust.works teslekova@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-01-09
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The day I learn to 10 finger type is the day my brain was able to express itself outside my head. I type around 100-120 words a minute. My brain still has to wait for my fingers, but it's so much better than writing.

Two words a second... Yes, that may be adequate. I wonder if I could persuade these bastard fingers of mine to relearn to type fast after so many years of touchscreens.

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charade_you_are sh.itjust.works charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-07
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The day I learn to 10 finger type is the day my brain was able to express itself outside my head. I type around 100-120 words a minute. My brain still has to wait for my fingers, but it's so much better than writing.

What I've always found interesting, i guess, is that I'm about 40 words per minute on a good day and I've been 10 finger typing for 30+ years. I've never improved. If anything I've gotten worse because of all the mistakes I constantly make.

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jaschen306 sh.itjust.works jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-09
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What I've always found interesting, i guess, is that I'm about 40 words per minute on a good day and I've been 10 finger typing for 30+ years. I've never improved. If anything I've gotten worse because of all the mistakes I constantly make.

Now with touchscreens, I use swipe typing which dramatically improves your speed. My ADHD brain copes with my slow typing better with it.

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jaschen306 sh.itjust.works jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-09
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Two words a second... Yes, that may be adequate. I wonder if I could persuade these bastard fingers of mine to relearn to type fast after so many years of touchscreens.

With touchscreens I use swipe typing. It's significantly faster.

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baguettefish discuss.tchncs.de baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-07-06
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With touchscreens I use swipe typing. It's significantly faster.

i still get about 70wpm just tap typing. i never really got how to do swipe typing fast. i heard apparently some swipe keyboards allow you to mostly just swipe in the direction of a key without actually touching the key and that seems like a big speedup, but i never learned it.

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baguettefish discuss.tchncs.de baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-07-06
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Two words a second... Yes, that may be adequate. I wonder if I could persuade these bastard fingers of mine to relearn to type fast after so many years of touchscreens.

it's not easy to (re)learn, but it's possible. i slowly learned to type with 10 fingers over the course of like the last 6 years, just throwing my head against https://www.keybr.com/ once a year or so. the most difficult part for me was typing with my pinkies, but that only took about two hours of focused practice to start with. as with everything in life, you may get good without focused practice, but practice makes perfect.

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imetators lemmy.dbzer0.com imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-10
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That is me doing my writing assessments.

When it comes to just show my skills - I am at the top of the scoreboard. When it comes to write about it - pen is heavier than a whole universe.

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jaschen306 sh.itjust.works jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-09
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i still get about 70wpm just tap typing. i never really got how to do swipe typing fast. i heard apparently some swipe keyboards allow you to mostly just swipe in the direction of a key without actually touching the key and that seems like a big speedup, but i never learned it.

I used a ton, but google has been more accurate.

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Gerard's Guitar retrolemmy.com GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com
Joined: 2025-07-31
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In classic ADHD fashion, that image has reminded me of an anecdote.

I've always needed to put the pen cap on the end of my pen as a counterweight when I'm writing, anyone else do this?

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charade_you_are sh.itjust.works charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-07
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Now with touchscreens, I use swipe typing which dramatically improves your speed. My ADHD brain copes with my slow typing better with it.

I never gave swiping a real try, it always seems like a weird thing to me. Texting on a phone is one of the most frustrating I do these days

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supersquirrel sopuli.xyz supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-09
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"You know what I do, if I can't focus I put a little weight on the end of my pencil and that bit of resistance helps me focus!" - Somebody offering advice

looks over at pencil with 100 pounds of weight on it not even knowing where to start - "Thanks! Good idea I will try that!"

goes back to suffering

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yourgodlucifer sh.itjust.works yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-01-03
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How death metal started.

Not true this is clearly heavy metal.

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Entertainmeonly (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-08-17
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Not true this is clearly heavy metal.

Haha oh shit, it was right there too. Very nice.

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