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

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halfapage@lemmy.world
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Maeve@kbin.earth
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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.

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HelloHotel@lemm.ee
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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.

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EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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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.

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

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

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fossphi@lemm.ee
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Libera is quite active

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CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Tried using swipe typing before and honestly I’m just faster typing normally.

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conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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Yeah, autocorrect is bad enough without the extra emphasis on it with swipe.

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morrowind@lemmy.ml
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It’s vastly better when you need to type with one hand

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CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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True, but otherwise I just type faster normally.

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mwguy@infosec.pub
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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.

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don@lemm.ee
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Can confirm, it’s worth the effort.

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