Poll of the Day > Do you think typing is an important skill?

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I think that maybe it isn't such a big deal if someone knows how to type or not, but then again I think my worldview is pretty limited since it has only been useful for me when it comes to writing essays last minute for class.
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I think it depends on how often you use it. For a few of the jobs I've had, if you couldn't type, it would suck. Work would take way longer and you slow down everything. But if what you do it life doesn't take typing, then it would be a useless skill to you...
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If you can't type in the modern world, I don't know how you can live.
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No
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more important than having nice handwriting
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VeeVees posted...

more important than having nice handwriting

Also not important
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Yeah, it kinda' is nowadays.
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VeeVees posted...

more important than having nice handwriting

i can't count the number of times my parents got on my ass about my handwriting....it's always the older generation telling you "you need great handwriting to get anywhere in life"
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Somewhat. However, even people in professional, white collar jobs aren't necessarily great typists (albeit mostly boomers). It's certainly a benefit for most professional careers, but I'm not sure that it's important. People can certainly get by without it. And, if you work in a non-professional capacity, you likely won't have much need for it. The bulk of blue-collar and low-end jobs don't even involve computers.

NightMareBunny posted...

VeeVees posted...

more important than having nice handwriting

i can't count the number of times my parents got on my ass about my handwriting....it's always the older generation telling you "you need great handwriting to get anywhere in life"

Not for nothing, but you've talked about your handwriting being bad and you've openly confessed to not getting anywhere in life.
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for the time being typing is a decently important skill for most white-collar work. however i think it will become largely obsolete in the near future as voice-to-text becomes more accurate and user-friendly

LedZeppelin posted...

for the time being typing is a decently important skill for most white-collar work. however i think it will become largely obsolete in the near future as voice-to-text becomes more accurate and user-friendly

While voice-to-text may be a game-changer, I kinda think that there are always going to be certain challenges with the technology (ie, it's harder to edit, different thinking process, etc). I'm kinda curious how it's going to be incorporated into noisier workplaces, given the logistical issues there.
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Zeus posted...

LedZeppelin posted...

for the time being typing is a decently important skill for most white-collar work. however i think it will become largely obsolete in the near future as voice-to-text becomes more accurate and user-friendly

While voice-to-text may be a game-changer, I kinda think that there are always going to be certain challenges with the technology (ie, it's harder to edit, different thinking process, etc). I'm kinda curious how it's going to be incorporated into noisier workplaces, given the logistical issues there.

youre right about it being harder to edit through voice-to-text. but im expecting that number one, it will get accurate enough that you wont need to edit a whole lot, and two, that eventually someone will come up with an elegant solution to making those text modifications through voice commands

LedZeppelin posted...

Zeus posted...

LedZeppelin posted...

for the time being typing is a decently important skill for most white-collar work. however i think it will become largely obsolete in the near future as voice-to-text becomes more accurate and user-friendly

While voice-to-text may be a game-changer, I kinda think that there are always going to be certain challenges with the technology (ie, it's harder to edit, different thinking process, etc). I'm kinda curious how it's going to be incorporated into noisier workplaces, given the logistical issues there.

youre right about it being harder to edit through voice-to-text. but im expecting that number one, it will get accurate enough that you wont need to edit a whole lot, and two, that eventually someone will come up with an elegant solution to making those text modifications through voice commands

You're thinking of editing in terms of just proofreading, but it goes a lot further than just minor mistakes in transcription. For instance, you might say a wrong word (something that a software wouldn't be guaranteed to pick up through context) decide that you want to rephrase something because you don't like the tone.
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NightMareBunny posted...

VeeVees posted...

more important than having nice handwriting

i can't count the number of times my parents got on my ass about my handwriting....it's always the older generation telling you "you need great handwriting to get anywhere in life"

only my mom does. literally no one else complains about my handwriting, my teachers never did back in school and i've seen them whine about others (usually for some girls handwriting being too small for them to read)

yeah my handwriting looks like a kids but its legible.

as far as typing goes, I say its semi important. more useful than just plain important though. but in a world getting taken over by touch screens I see it going to wayside. unfortunate too I hate typing on a touchscreen. I used to be against learning how to do it thinking the hunt and peck method worked just fine. i'm really glad I learned though. hasn't come in hand on a job yet, but just makes talking to people on here on facebook much easier. especially since I dislike shortening words like saying "u" instead of "you"
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It's obsolete, we're basically going to be sending snap chat style memos for everything in the future and that will be all we know how to do.

There will be react videos of kids trying to eat keyboards because it is so archaic to them.

Typing in the sense of being able to type reasonably quickly and accurately? That's pretty vital for many fields. Typing in the sense of formal homerow technique? Not so much.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

NightMareBunny posted...

VeeVees posted...

more important than having nice handwriting

i can't count the number of times my parents got on my ass about my handwriting....it's always the older generation telling you "you need great handwriting to get anywhere in life"

only my mom does. literally no one else complains about my handwriting, my teachers never did back in school and i've seen them whine about others (usually for some girls handwriting being too small for them to read)

yeah my handwriting looks like a kids but its legible.

as far as typing goes, I say its semi important. more useful than just plain important though. but in a world getting taken over by touch screens I see it going to wayside. unfortunate too I hate typing on a touchscreen. I used to be against learning how to do it thinking the hunt and peck method worked just fine. i'm really glad I learned though. hasn't come in hand on a job yet, but just makes talking to people on here on facebook much easier. especially since I dislike shortening words like saying "u" instead of "you"

like it gets old after awhile....if anyone needs me to send something It's usually gonna look like crap
and people can blame that on me being lazy but the truth is writing with a pen or pencil is kinda obsolete these days when you got computers
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how do you use the internet without typing?
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No, but it is a skill people naturally develop as they work with computers.
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adjl posted...

Typing in the sense of being able to type reasonably quickly and accurately? That's pretty vital for many fields. Typing in the sense of formal homerow technique? Not so much.

This. Being able to use a keyboard with some proficiency is important in a wide range of fields, but most people won't need the speed and accuracy that comes with proper typing technique.
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Yes.
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Judgmenl posted...

No, but it is a skill people naturally develop as they work with computers.

I dunno, my uncle works a lot with computers and he still hunts and pecks.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

Judgmenl posted...

No, but it is a skill people naturally develop as they work with computers.

I dunno, my uncle works a lot with computers and he still hunts and pecks.

People at one of my jobs still do that. Yet, the computer is a big part of their job...
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

how do you use the internet without typing?

Typing on a phone is different then a keyboard. And they also do have voice to text programs now which I won't use until they get it to work as smoothly as possible.
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NightMareBunny posted...

and people can blame that on me being lazy but the truth is writing with a pen or pencil is kinda obsolete these days when you got computers

The problem is not always having a computer in front of you. If you take notes during a meeting, you have to be able to read them later and ideally have them legible enough that others who couldn't make it to the meeting are able to read them.
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adjl posted...

Typing in the sense of being able to type reasonably quickly and accurately? That's pretty vital for many fields. Typing in the sense of formal homerow technique? Not so much.

So this.

I have absolutely no idea how to type "correctly". I mostly type with one finger on each hand, without my hand sitting on the keyboard at all, just having muscle memory for where the keys are. I have decent speed and accuracy that way.

And hell nah I can't imagine only using phones and talk to text and shit for the internet. It's so much better to type on an actual keyboard for me.
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