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[hckynutjohn]

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@Mindy D 

Typing on my Land Line I use only numbers, same with my cell phone. I will call it "touching numbers" on both. Typing with my thumbs on my computer keyboard?

Didn't even do that when I had a cast from my elbow down to and over my hand, everything but the tips of my fingers and thumb. Nah, fingers only typing, and only when I am actually typing words, not phone numbers.

I Don't Text

hckynut 🇺🇸

[jackiejenny]

Both thumbs. 

[Sweetbay magnolia]

The thumb thing is not something I can do.

I'm from the old school "A S D F" of typing.  I can go pretty fast but I always have to look at the keys.

Someone who can "touch type" while reading a document on the side - now that's impressive.

[songbird]

I rarely text.  I would rather talk.  A lot faster.  Also almost everyone in my family would rather talk.  I text very little, so I don't text with my thumbs.  I have noticed a decline in texting.  All the years I've traveled on the school shuttle.  In the early 2000's, it was noisy.  Everyone talked.  Then in the mid  of the decade, it fell silent.  Everyone was communicating with thumbs.  In the latter have of the decade, it's become a little noisy.  People are talking more again, or....talking less.  This is the age of internet on the phone. 

[Starpolisher]

I've tried but can't do it!

I'd love to take a poll and see just who can type with their thumbs? I bet hardly anyone from my generation, 60 plus uses their thumbs. It seems the younger people are the ones that can do this! Like many of you, I use my right pointer finger!(I also took typing in school)😂😅🤣

Here's an article about it.

Typing on cellphones with 2 thumbs is like the 5-finger scales.
https://galaxymusicnotes.com/blogs/mizues-blog/typing-on-cellphones-with-2-thumbs-is-like-the-5-fing...

[faeriemoon]

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@gidgetgh wrote:

I used to use my thumbs years and years ago on my Blackberry. 

On my iPhone, I hold the phone in my left hand and use my right pointer finger.

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Exactly the same for me!!  I haven't been able to master the art of  touch- screen thumb typing.  (And I have had iphones for what seems like forever!)

I still prefer buttons, but that ship has sailed.

[songbird]

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@faeriemoon wrote:

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@gidgetgh wrote:

I used to use my thumbs years and years ago on my Blackberry. 

On my iPhone, I hold the phone in my left hand and use my right pointer finger.

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Exactly the same for me!!  I haven't been able to master the art of  touch- screen thumb typing.  (And I have had iphones for what seems like forever!)

I still prefer buttons, but that ship has sailed.

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OMG...Blackberry!  I remember seeing one of them..  By that time cell phones were just becomming around. Then I remember them suddenly disappearing.  I remember a guest at a family dinner having one. Weren't they the forerunners of smart phones? 

[lkat]

I have to admit I never realized so many people couldn't text with their thumbs.  I thought that's how most people did it.  I tease my husband sometimes because he always uses one finger and uses a stylus on his tablet.  I guess I shouldn't have done that!

I am a programmer and was an executive secretary when I was young and I've always spent most of my day typing on a typewriter or a keyboard so using my thumbs seems more natural - using left thumb for left side/right thumb for right just seems way more comfortable than using one finger for all and I know I can text a lot faster that way.  I do wish I had skinnier thumbs sometimes though 

[faeriemoon]

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@lkat wrote:

I have to admit I never realized so many people couldn't text with their thumbs.  I thought that's how most people did it.  I tease my husband sometimes because he always uses one finger and uses a stylus on his tablet.  I guess I shouldn't have done that!

I am a programmer and was an executive secretary when I was young and I've always spent most of my day typing on a typewriter or a keyboard so using my thumbs seems more natural - using left thumb for left side/right thumb for right just seems way more comfortable than using one finger for all and I know I can text a lot faster that way.  I do wish I had skinnier thumbs sometimes though 

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I think the issue with many of us is we can't type with our thumbs on a screen.  Buttons are easier.

[depglass]

I think those of us who have spent part of our life typing for a job (like legal secretary in my case, also many jobs for Kelly Girls, yes that's what they called them) can't adapt to thumbs, fingers, or a stylus.  Our medical office used to hand patients an I Pad and tell us to register.  That idea went down the tubes very shortly.