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What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also learned a bit about keyboards while searching for the one I bought (Durgod Taurus, excellent for a ~100€ budget).

It led me to try the proper touch typing technique from https://www.typing.com/, it took a while to get faster than my previous technique but I can now type faster with much less effort than before. It's worth the time investment if you do stuff with lots of typing, or if you just like typing fast

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much did you practice? And how did you manage to get over it? I am trying to learn but then I also have to work and be productive and my current typing method, though Inferior, is faster obviously. So when I have to be productive I type in my own style and I just feel like I lose the muscle memory I gained :/

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I went through that exact problem, I had my doubts that I would ever get faster but eventually I did.

I insisted on typing the correct way despite being slow even at work, unless I was sharing screen with someone and didn't want to seem like I can't even type lol

I also did every step of the site I mentioned, it helped very much in building the initial muscle memory. Once the muscle memory was there, I started to get faster and faster without much effort. The hardest part is achieving that initial muscle memory even if it's slow.