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[facthunter]

They send the young apprentices to the store to get the long wait. Nev

[nomadpete]

12 minutes ago, facthunter said:

They send the young apprentices to the store to get the long wait. Nev

Sorry, Nev. Not allowed to do that these days. No sense of humour! 

 

[red750]

Here's another one of those eye test thingies. You will have to do it in less than 10 seconds to beat me. Find the spring. Don't worry, there is only one.

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

2 mins ? It stood out like a sore thumb (for once)

[spacesailor]

I brought it to full size to cee-it. But after. l saw-it on the little pic.

SO

It was to big to miss.

spacesailor

[red750]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

2 mins ? It stood out like a sore thumb (for once)

I said 10 sec. It was more like less than 5 sec. On the FB screen the photo was too large to see in one go, you had to scroll down, which took up the time - search the top part till you had to scroll down.

[facthunter]

2 seconds. Just luck, straight at it. Stands out like dog's balls...  Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

I said 10 sec. It was more like less than 5 sec. On the FB screen the photo was too large to see in one go, you had to scroll down, which took up the time - search the top part till you had to scroll down.

I was referring to the caption in the picture...

 

 

[ClintonB]

Just like work, I’m always picking up the dropped unused screws out of the sweepings. The young fella doesn’t look too hard cause he doesn’t have to buy them.

[red750]

Find the odd one out. You have one minute....

 

 

[kgwilson]

Easy when enlarged. 2D, 2A.

[spacesailor]

Number six !.

spacesailor

[onetrack]

And here was me, spending 2 mins looking for a missing leg!!

[old man emu]

Youse blokes are wrong. It's the Hamlet soliloquy: To be, or not to be. That is the answer.

[willedoo]

Found this on one of those clickbait sites. I've probably hit the F and J keys on a keyboard a million times and never realised they both have a horizontal raised ridge below the letter. Supposedly for ease of navigation, and I'd assume for people who can type without looking at the keys. Unlike myself who uses two index fingers and must watch them closely.

 

I've always had dark keyboards which might explain never having seen the bumps. Either that or I'm just plain stupid.

 

 

[onetrack]

Well, there ya go. I never noticed mine, because they're not outlined in the keyboard manual - and everyone reads their keyboard manual before use, don't they??  

 

https://inshorts.com/en/news/why-are-there-bumps-on-f-and-j-keys-on-keyboards-1489489400543#:~:text=keys on keyboards%3F-,Why are there bumps on 'F' and 'J',all keys with minimal movement.

[old man emu]

Those bumps are to help you position your index fingers. Then your other fingers are over the keys they operate.

 

This diagram shows which fingers use which keys.

[onetrack]

Does this mean I now have to paint my fingernails in the allotted colours, so I can learn how to type properly??

[old man emu]

For two-finger typists needing a break 

 

 

 

For dyslexic typists 

[Marty_d]

I learned to touch type in college, it's one of the most useful skills I've had for my 33 year career.  So yes my index fingers naturally fall to those little bumps whenever I touch a keyboard.

[spacesailor]

I prefer the " Alphanumeric " keyboard. 

Only needs one hand,

The QWERTY type is an arrangement to help ' mechanical keys '  from jamming together. 

Even the ' calculator 'has been, " improved " with ' reversed Polish notation . ( Jan Lukasiecz ) .

spacesailor

[Old Koreelah]

2 hours ago, old man emu said:

Those bumps are to help you position your index fingers. Then your other fingers are over the keys they operate.

 

This diagram shows which fingers use which keys.

I taught myself to use this system; it wasn’t easy to learn, but worth the effort. 

[nomadpete]

I was told that the 'bumps' on F and J indicated 'home' keys to assist touch typing. I always feel for them when typing on a real keyboard but this phone doesn't have them.

[pmccarthy]

I am not a fast typist so I learned to use voice to text very efficiently. But I have found that I can't think any faster than my slow typing anyway.

[facthunter]

Typing is an adventure for me. A different way every time . Currently one hand is fully bandaged and  that's stuffing things well and truly.  Nev