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In the Age of AI, People Still Type With Their Hands

DEV Community·Asher Buk·26 days ago
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About two months ago I submitted my typing trainer FingerGo to Flathub . I was genuinely curious - do people still type with their hands in the age of AI? Do they still train touch typing, or are they satisfied with a speech-to-text button and the occasional lazy two-finger hunt for the remaining keys? :D Turns out - yes! You'd think a niche tool for desktop Linux wouldn't get much traction, but so far it's pulling 1,000+ installs per month. I originally built this for myself. I got a split keyboard and started learning touch typing. As a developer, you need to type, stay in the flow , and not break focus . Also - my wrists started hurting. So I switched to a split keyboard and invested in proper touch typing. Within a few months I hit a comfortable 60 WPM on plain text and ~40 WPM coding. That's a solid average for touch typists - and pretty much unreachable for "hunters." I consider this a true hard skill and one of the best investments for anyone spending most of their day at a computer.…

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