A recent Wall Street Journal report delves into Gen Z's surprising lack of keyboard typing skills, featuring interviews with several individuals and revealing some startling statistics.
  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    161·
    2 months ago

    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.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      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
        53·
        2 months ago

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

      • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

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