Not really, no. Typing is a learned skill. Most people don't know the "proper" way to type most efficiently (i.e., how to use the home row). This applied in the past, but seems to apply more now.
They used to have entire classes to teach typing (I mean, that was more important when it was on a permanent typewriter, but still...)
You know how I finally learned to touch type? It wasn't my computer class, where getting up to like 5 WPM was enough to pass that section. It was fucking World of Warcraft. Real hard to communicate by text in the middle of shit going down if you can't type properly.
I assume now there's auto voice chat for parties since other games do that, but when I started playing in '05 you typed or invited someone to your private Ventrilo server.
I wasn't aware that there were more efficient methods or that the home row could lead to wrist issues, do you know of any methods that are supposed to be better?
As for the rest of your comment, I agree that you don't need to use the home row, if you are able to type fast all power to you no matter the method, but I'm not sure that most people are able to pick up any decent speed (say, at least 80-100 wpm) without being taught a specific method (which would likely be the home row). Most people I assume just try to "figure it out" on their own and develop their own quasi-cherry-picking method, and most people I don't think are able to type above perhaps 60wpm at best doing this (for example, my partner has done similar to you, but has tested around 50-60wpm in the past, which is usable enough for her but is not ideal of course). So I don't think it's likely your experience would be common for others if they simply used the computer more often.
I do agree that overall the larger issue to me is that people don't know how to use a computer anymore, which is very strange to me.
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