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.
  • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I’m a programmer. I write hundreds of lines of code a day (of varying levels of quality ofc). I also fix technology (phones, laptops, desktops. tablets, etc). I’m probably one of the most “tech-savvy” people I know. I very rarely type faster than 70 wpm. it’s just not necessary for what most of us are doing.

      • wax@feddit.nuEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I just lean on tab and let copilot fill the screen with garbage

    • untorquer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Agreed. I write slow and incomprehensible. I read slow with shit comprehension. Passed engineering school with very high GPA and am successful in my engineering career. These metrics are bullshit boomer click bait.

      Almost as bad as “Gen z/a can’t read analog clocks!”

      • Preflight_Tomato@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I think the panic around analog clocks comes from the scenario where you have to explain what clockwise and counterclockwise is. I have personally seen someone eventually removed from a workgroup because they couldn’t understand it.

        Not that analog clocks matter, but that was an easy way to teach direction in cylindrical coordinates. What can we use now for that?