Quote: " but I was constantly using the "hunt and peck" method. Meaning my little eyes (I was about 6 I think) were constantly fixed on the keys with my hands moving all over the place trying to find they key I wanted!"
I believe that people who hunt and peck still should have a decent typing speed. It is in my best belief that alot of "hunt and peckers" are "dont want to type so refuse to learn.
Memorize asd and qwerty and you have several of the most common keys pressed. But people who ask "where is the A" constantly, I have to say that they just are not willing to type and mentally block the learning so that they persist in their hunt and peck methods.
In this, I am serious. I know people who have been typing for more then eight years and still are hunt pecking. After a while normally a person would know where a few keys were yet these people show no sign of progress. In this case it IS clear that they are unwilling to learn. Hunt pecking works and for the most part they don't want to think as much when typing. To take the time to make the connection between the keys and the letters.
Of course it can also be the way they are typing. I generally find it harder to type unfamiliar words or less commonly used, I also realized that it wasn't so much that I can't spell them, but because I haven't typed them alot. When I first "learned" to type the fastest thing I could type was my full name, 16 characters in 1.5 seconds (apox). However typing other words was a much slower task.
It is like playing a musical instrument. Just because you know the song by heart does not mean you can tell us what the notes are, and similarly, just because you know what the notes are doesn't mean you can play it perfectally. But repeating those same notes over and over forms pathways in your mind and suddently you aren't making mistakes and are playing without issue.
My point is simple, either you are too lazy to learn somthing, or you are learning it in the wrong way. There is no "I can't learn it" there is only "I won't learn it". And if you want reason to learn it, it stimulates your mind (okay... not sure of the validity of this... but is a stimulated mind less likly to develope althimers? I know, spelling) which enriches your life. It has been proven that older people recieve less stimulation because of their life style, typically repeating experiances they had before instead of seeking out new ones.
Without this stimulation something happens (neural pathways breakup?) and I can't answer for certain anymore... but still, do it, it is good for you.
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