Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills

jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Typing of the dead

  Still my favorite example of gamification: take a useful task and make it so fun that people will gladly devote hours and hours of their time to it.

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  • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t know I was learning a life skill at the time. I was having such a good time playing and wanted to get better and better. I guess this sorta holds true for any sport.

    My girlfriend (wife now) at the time also played with me using two keyboards. She types over 120wpm.

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    • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didn’t know I was learning a life skill at the time.

      The House of the Dead 2 was a really popular arcade game at the time, so adapting the preexisting game into an at-home typing trainer was actually genius innovation.

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• untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Millennial, StarCraft on 56k modem (no voip). Type like a raccoon but fast.

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