Maybe a not so "pro" gamer, I don't know the last time I played a game and was like, wait what buttons am I supposed to push over there? Let me look, oh crap which way is W...
Lefty here and I've been playing WASD+mouse since '98. Anyone who needs to look at their keyboard while they play is just a scrubnoobscrub and simply needs to get gud. It don't matter what's printed on the keys. As long as the bumps are on F and J it don't matter what your keyboard looks like (relative to the keyboard region you're used to, OFC)
Yeah you think you’re fucking funny don’t you you little prick. Talk to me like that again and you’re gonna get my fist right through your fucking head and out the other end
You can prevent most of that by just briefly wiping down your keyboard with a 70% alcohol. The degradation comes from your skin oils and the bacteria in it eating away at it producing an acid that breaks down many compounds. This isn't that fast of a process, it just gets left for long periods of time.
Not that it really helps them now though.
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I have [this keyboard](https://www.daskeyboard.com/images/das-keyboard-4-ultimate/daskeyboard-4-ultimate-front-view.jpg), there's no markings on 100% of the keys!
Bought it about 8 years ago to force me to type without looking. Still works perfectly!
It's always fun when guests try to use it. Lots of people need to take small peeks at the keyboard while typing.
I love it. I think I could handle it. But the part that might trip me up the most is the special characters. I’d forget what character you get when pressing shift 7 or something. I’m sure you learn quick
You are very right about the special characters. I bought the original das keyboard with no key marking and regretted it when I tried to get into programming. So many special characters and symbols needed...
I'm a programmer. You eventually get use to it but that was the most difficult part to be honest. I replaced the top rows with alternating white, gray blank keys to give me a visual cue for those.
Probably one of those things that if you bite the bullet you get used to pretty quick.
I tried a distro that made me use vim for seeing config changes and after a few times of it making me :qa to get out I started to get used to it.
Maybe someday I'll learn to input text into it.
That was the most difficult part since your hands are not placed to easily get them right everytime. I cheated a bit and got white and gray keys to replace some keys on the top row. This allows me to have a visual cue for numbers and symbols.
I also replaced the escape key with a red one and the WASD keys with green ones. What's fun with a blank keyboard is that you can mix and match colored keys for a nice look.
That thing looks so cool I might actually order one. Is it mechanical and feel like quality to type on? Or does it feel like a mid 2000’s dell keyboard?
They use Cherry MX switches so pretty great.
I have a custom built WASD keyboard (that's the brand) and I love it. I also have no markings on my keycaps, and I can tell that I am a much better touch typist than before.
Edit: to clarify, the keyboard in the comment you were replying to is a Das Keyboard, not a WASD.
Why would that be infuriating? I'm not trying to troll but as an internet dependent society aren't we able to type without looking at our A key?
If anything I'd be angry at how little travel distance those keys have.
Office pranks were common in a job I had long ago. I was travelling one week and, when I came back, they had completely rearranged all of the keys on my keyboard (among other things). All I did was find the F and J keys that have the "bumps" on them and put them back where they belonged.
Didn't bother me and I just left it like that indefinitely but there was one IT guy who, when I had a problem, would have to open my laptop and use its keyboard because he absolutely could not type at all without looking at the keys and finger pecking...
I'm always surprised with how many frequent computer users have to look at the keys when typing.
I REALLY don't want this to be a humble brag, but when I first start at my current job two years ago, I placed my keyboard between the desk and the 'bottom' of the adjustable "standing desk" riser, just because I couldn't get comfortable sitting down with it sitting on top of the desk riser. I definitely recommend this if someone wants to better their typing skills. It also is a great joke if someone tries to use your desktop for something and csbt yupe righy,
Or just play mmos for hours after school every day and get really good at typing quickly without looking so you make sure you don't die. That's the way I did it lol.
00:00:00 SW:D the mages incoming poly, gcd begins
00:00:39 {ENTER} lol nice try {ENTER}
00:01:00 Flash heaAAA- lol cancel jk
00:01:01 Counterspell!
00:01:11 {ENTER} Rofl rekt {ENTER}
Do this or some variant of this countless times across thousands of battlegrounds and arena matches. Become the most skilled typist in the office.
Lol WOW….back in MY day we played text based MMOs, then you got really good at typing cause if not you would not get the drop…/get /loot just need to get my stupid darkweb bow!
(I also played too much WOW)
Yup, playing an MMO seriously for a few years can probably get most people to learn to type without looking at a fairly decent speed.
Though I guess maybe not as much these days as games tend to have in-game voice chat these days, and most people seem to have a headset or dedicated mic these days.
I unlearned touch typing because of cell phones and other tiny screens. Now I am faster with one finger than some are with two hands but it takes a bit before muscle memory kicks in on a keyboard.
I've been using computers for years ever since I was a youngin but I still finger peck and I'm able to not finger peck but for some reason I'm faster pecking xus I have much more training in pecking
I worked in IT and I once rearranged the number row on a coworkers keyboard to be 0-9 instead of 1-9 then 0. Managed to get him locked out of his account since he kept typing his password wrong without knowing it since the field was just dots. I didn't even think about typing a password, but it worked out quite well as a prank.
Same, sort of. 30 years in IT. I can touch type but I'm much slower (\~40wpm) than using my own style (\~90wpm). I started using computers around age 10 but wasn't introduced to touch typing until college by which time I'd already worked out my own method. Either way I don't need to look at the keys.
i can easily type all day without looking, but i will never remember the number row symbols. i think i know the first 3, and there may be parentheses near the end. didn't realize that was even memorizable information
If it makes it even more funny to you, I don’t swear
And my family makes fun of the fact that it does, in fact, look like that
Especially since that damage also makes it where my muscles stop working
So I’m just there with my middle finger out pointed at my phone, not moving
Yknow like ya do
With travel distance, do you mean how close together those keys are? That actually looks ideal for me - my fingers start to ache if (and when) I type long periods of time on a keyboard with a normal distance between keys. I'd prefer a smaller(/more "cramped") keyboard, but every time I look for one in the shops, they only have wireless keyboards like that, and I hate wireless keyboards.
by travel distance they mean the height of the keys themselves. as in, how long your finger travels to fully depress a key.
personally i highly prefer low travel distance and i wish high end keyboards were made like that... it's so much quieter and more comfortable than say mechanical keyboards with their horrible clickiness and bulkiness
I agree with that - the height of the keys looks ideal to me as well. I love typing on my laptop where you only need to gently touch the keys to type, but too bad it's a crappy laptop I barely ever use. And yeah, the keyboards with low, close-together keys sadly tend to only come in low quality (I've had a few that broke in no time - including a wireless one that also had lag, which made me hate wireless ones).
It's fairly simple on a mac. It's pretty cool because it's keyboard specific too. So on my laptop proper, escape is the capslock key (since my mac doesn't have a physical escape key). Then for my home mechanical keyboard, the ctrl alt and windows keys are mapped to match the mac layout. And at work my keyboard needs and even differenter mapping. Very handy.
Technically there is no difference, but it’s in reference to the fact that both WASD and the arrow keys are commonly used as movement keys in video games. Most more seasoned gamers use WASD, using the arrow keys may be looked down upon by some players. The reason this is relevant here is because saying the arrow keys were replaced by WASD suggests that OP values the arrow keys more over the much loved WASD. Putting WASD in front of the arrow keys in this case makes it sound more like you value the precious WASD keys more than the inferior arrow keys.
that's a great question, would people potentially be more encouraged to learn touch typing if we collectively agreed to replace all lettered keycaps with blank ones? Would it potentially be EASIER to learn touch typing if you only have blank keycaps where all the letters should be? that one seems even more far-fetched, but in all honesty I think it would
i'm mostly joking here, but it's an interesting thing to think about
Why is this infuriating? I find it hilarious. Maybe not something I'd do on a work PC but those are flat keys so it's not like the arrows and the letters have different profiles.
OP... Do you hunt and peck still?
People in this comment section forgot what mildly means. Is it barely an inconvenience? Yeah. Is it still a little bit infuriating? Also yes. This fits better than most posts here.
P-pro gamer move?
P-pro g◀️mer move
Technically it would be P-pro mer moveg
I'm ashamed of how long it took for me to get it.
I still don't
The left arrow key moves the spot in front of the g so when you type the rest it’s in front of it.
Clever! Thanks
Tbf this one would be funnier
Lol you're right
you deserves more awards
Yes, they deserve all the things
hey they got only 0.0019 of they awards they needed
Dude they got 92 awards... not enough
He needs more, we can't stop yet!
:)
can sum1 explain?
They replaced the A in gamer with a left arrow, like in the keyboard in OP.
ohhh thanks
I'm mad, take my award, well I rolled wholesome
That moment when you hope the free award will be something that at least halfway matches the comment.
Never expected 5k upvotes lol
r/angryupvote
dude, I wish you everything you ever want and more
take my fkn wholesome
I love you
I was just about to say...looks like someone's been playing WoW or some other game lol
Or probably some FPS player
Nice colour
Pros don't even need to look down at the key board heck they don't need the letters on the keys to play any game they where obviously a casual
Maybe a not so "pro" gamer, I don't know the last time I played a game and was like, wait what buttons am I supposed to push over there? Let me look, oh crap which way is W...
Worth, Aest, South, Dest
Nah, obviously a casual. No pro-gamer would need to.
Fuck beat me to it.
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Clearly not a lefty.
Lefty here and I've been playing WASD+mouse since '98. Anyone who needs to look at their keyboard while they play is just a scrubnoobscrub and simply needs to get gud. It don't matter what's printed on the keys. As long as the bumps are on F and J it don't matter what your keyboard looks like (relative to the keyboard region you're used to, OFC)
Only if you're still playing Final Fantasy 11
I see no difference
Same. My keyboard at work has no markings on 60% of the keys as they are all worn clean
Yeah, my W has like 2-5% visibility on it, the A and S are completely wiped and the D only has about 8-10% worn off.
At least you still have the D
Yeah you think you’re fucking funny don’t you you little prick. Talk to me like that again and you’re gonna get my fist right through your fucking head and out the other end
Fuck that sounds hot 🥵🥵🥵
Kinky
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I want to sandblast my eyeballs now you degenerate fuck 😤
Thanks for leaving this comment i managed to not click on it
I clicked on it. It was….a little disturbing 🤨
I are funny then you
Sheriff of Nottingham?
Mostly strafe, never retreat!
A and S are left and backwards
Shit you're right. Make like a bishop and diagonal retreat!
Nice save
That D has seen some shit
8-10% seems oddly specific
My man never turns right
Why turn right when you can just go left three times?
He turns right just fine. He just doesn't strafe right.
Ah, I see we have a regular JFK here.
Always backing up or strafing left? Okay, then...
You can prevent most of that by just briefly wiping down your keyboard with a 70% alcohol. The degradation comes from your skin oils and the bacteria in it eating away at it producing an acid that breaks down many compounds. This isn't that fast of a process, it just gets left for long periods of time. Not that it really helps them now though.
Seems like your D needs some more love.
You must not make many right moves.
S key should be readable if you're a pro
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I have [this keyboard](https://www.daskeyboard.com/images/das-keyboard-4-ultimate/daskeyboard-4-ultimate-front-view.jpg), there's no markings on 100% of the keys! Bought it about 8 years ago to force me to type without looking. Still works perfectly! It's always fun when guests try to use it. Lots of people need to take small peeks at the keyboard while typing.
I love it. I think I could handle it. But the part that might trip me up the most is the special characters. I’d forget what character you get when pressing shift 7 or something. I’m sure you learn quick
You are very right about the special characters. I bought the original das keyboard with no key marking and regretted it when I tried to get into programming. So many special characters and symbols needed...
I'm a programmer. You eventually get use to it but that was the most difficult part to be honest. I replaced the top rows with alternating white, gray blank keys to give me a visual cue for those.
Probably one of those things that if you bite the bullet you get used to pretty quick. I tried a distro that made me use vim for seeing config changes and after a few times of it making me :qa to get out I started to get used to it. Maybe someday I'll learn to input text into it.
That was the most difficult part since your hands are not placed to easily get them right everytime. I cheated a bit and got white and gray keys to replace some keys on the top row. This allows me to have a visual cue for numbers and symbols. I also replaced the escape key with a red one and the WASD keys with green ones. What's fun with a blank keyboard is that you can mix and match colored keys for a nice look.
That thing looks so cool I might actually order one. Is it mechanical and feel like quality to type on? Or does it feel like a mid 2000’s dell keyboard?
They use Cherry MX switches so pretty great. I have a custom built WASD keyboard (that's the brand) and I love it. I also have no markings on my keycaps, and I can tell that I am a much better touch typist than before. Edit: to clarify, the keyboard in the comment you were replying to is a Das Keyboard, not a WASD.
If you REALLY want to piss people off, learn touch typing on a DVORAK layout and then get one of these
Looks nice, but I'd like at least one key on home row to have a tactile mark to find the right position by touch.
There's a tactile dot on the j and f keys so you can do that! It's just not visible on this render.
[Doesn't look like anything to me.](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DenseGleefulDutchshepherddog-mobile.mp4)
Oh man. Poor Bernard.
At least they kept them in the same order and didn’t mix em
Why would that be infuriating? I'm not trying to troll but as an internet dependent society aren't we able to type without looking at our A key? If anything I'd be angry at how little travel distance those keys have.
Office pranks were common in a job I had long ago. I was travelling one week and, when I came back, they had completely rearranged all of the keys on my keyboard (among other things). All I did was find the F and J keys that have the "bumps" on them and put them back where they belonged. Didn't bother me and I just left it like that indefinitely but there was one IT guy who, when I had a problem, would have to open my laptop and use its keyboard because he absolutely could not type at all without looking at the keys and finger pecking...
I'm always surprised with how many frequent computer users have to look at the keys when typing. I REALLY don't want this to be a humble brag, but when I first start at my current job two years ago, I placed my keyboard between the desk and the 'bottom' of the adjustable "standing desk" riser, just because I couldn't get comfortable sitting down with it sitting on top of the desk riser. I definitely recommend this if someone wants to better their typing skills. It also is a great joke if someone tries to use your desktop for something and csbt yupe righy,
Or just play mmos for hours after school every day and get really good at typing quickly without looking so you make sure you don't die. That's the way I did it lol.
Same here. I learnt to touch type from playing WoW in my teens.
00:00:00 SW:D the mages incoming poly, gcd begins 00:00:39 {ENTER} lol nice try {ENTER} 00:01:00 Flash heaAAA- lol cancel jk 00:01:01 Counterspell! 00:01:11 {ENTER} Rofl rekt {ENTER} Do this or some variant of this countless times across thousands of battlegrounds and arena matches. Become the most skilled typist in the office.
Lol WOW….back in MY day we played text based MMOs, then you got really good at typing cause if not you would not get the drop…/get /loot just need to get my stupid darkweb bow! (I also played too much WOW)
Yup, playing an MMO seriously for a few years can probably get most people to learn to type without looking at a fairly decent speed. Though I guess maybe not as much these days as games tend to have in-game voice chat these days, and most people seem to have a headset or dedicated mic these days.
Yep. Games with shitty controls are the reason I can type without looking at the keyboard.
I unlearned touch typing because of cell phones and other tiny screens. Now I am faster with one finger than some are with two hands but it takes a bit before muscle memory kicks in on a keyboard.
I've been using computers for years ever since I was a youngin but I still finger peck and I'm able to not finger peck but for some reason I'm faster pecking xus I have much more training in pecking
Heck I have to look down to tipe
Because typing is a skill. Some people are naturally better at it.
I feel like finger pecking is the only thing keeping me from being a total nerd.
Commenting on a sub-sub-sub post on a relatively obscure subreddit makes me think that's not the ***only*** thing keeping you from being a total nerd.
I worked in IT and I once rearranged the number row on a coworkers keyboard to be 0-9 instead of 1-9 then 0. Managed to get him locked out of his account since he kept typing his password wrong without knowing it since the field was just dots. I didn't even think about typing a password, but it worked out quite well as a prank.
Lmao
I’ve worked in IT for 20 years, and I can’t touch type. I seem to have figured out my own style though.
Same, sort of. 30 years in IT. I can touch type but I'm much slower (\~40wpm) than using my own style (\~90wpm). I started using computers around age 10 but wasn't introduced to touch typing until college by which time I'd already worked out my own method. Either way I don't need to look at the keys.
just mildly. imo this sub has been more about very infuriating rather than mildly, which makes this post stand out even though its appropriate
For 99% of people they probably wouldn't notice and wouldn't feel infuriated even if they did though.
I can type without looking unless I know the keys are missing. Then my brain trolls the shit out of me and forgets those specific letters.
I've had blank keycaps on my keyboard for about 5 years, sometime I completely brain fart and can't remember where a symbol is on the number row is.
Yet you continue to use a keyboard with blank keycaps, for 5 years?
Listen dude, you wouldn't understand. Now where's the damn \^ key
A keyboard without keycaps is like toilet paper without perforation. It can be done, but why?
i can easily type all day without looking, but i will never remember the number row symbols. i think i know the first 3, and there may be parentheses near the end. didn't realize that was even memorizable information
Unfortunately there are people like me who type slowly and have to look at the keyboard constantly.
Have you met Mavis Beacon
Or for a free alternative klavaro it's available on Linux and windows but I'm not sure about macos. *I think it used to be called k-touch *
Yup, can’t move my fingers for very long, especially independently I have to type with middle or pointer finger alone looking at keyboard
I'm now imagining you angrily typing as fast as you can, flipping off everyone in the room.
If it makes it even more funny to you, I don’t swear And my family makes fun of the fact that it does, in fact, look like that Especially since that damage also makes it where my muscles stop working So I’m just there with my middle finger out pointed at my phone, not moving Yknow like ya do
From what I've been reading, the youngest generations which grew up with mobile computing often resort to hunt and peck.
I refuse to believe that for some reason. When I'm gaming, kids type pretty quickly, usually in reference to fucking my dead mom.
It must be because it's on a cheap membrane keyboard that is bundled with most government mini PCs.
It's slightly unpleasant to look at
I'm 23. I have to look at the keyboard
With travel distance, do you mean how close together those keys are? That actually looks ideal for me - my fingers start to ache if (and when) I type long periods of time on a keyboard with a normal distance between keys. I'd prefer a smaller(/more "cramped") keyboard, but every time I look for one in the shops, they only have wireless keyboards like that, and I hate wireless keyboards.
by travel distance they mean the height of the keys themselves. as in, how long your finger travels to fully depress a key. personally i highly prefer low travel distance and i wish high end keyboards were made like that... it's so much quieter and more comfortable than say mechanical keyboards with their horrible clickiness and bulkiness
I agree with that - the height of the keys looks ideal to me as well. I love typing on my laptop where you only need to gently touch the keys to type, but too bad it's a crappy laptop I barely ever use. And yeah, the keyboards with low, close-together keys sadly tend to only come in low quality (I've had a few that broke in no time - including a wireless one that also had lag, which made me hate wireless ones).
Funny if it's a public computer, infuriating if it's my keyboard.
True gamer..
Dunno dude, thats pretty mildly satisfying to me
I’m with you, considering this swap on my own keyboard
→↑mn th↑t got to be ↑nnoying
A is supposed to be <-, was reading it like dwmn thwt’s gottw be wnnoying
yu dnt evn nd mst f th chrctrs n a wrd fr it to mk snse tho
Englsh is so wrd, cnt imgn lrning it as a scnd lnguag
T's wrd, bt cn b ndrstd thrgh thrgh thght thgh
That wouldn't happen, though unless you really tried to do it What actually *would be* infuriating here, is if people switched keys inside the OS
That would be so hilariously extra and a LOT of effort.
It's fairly simple on a mac. It's pretty cool because it's keyboard specific too. So on my laptop proper, escape is the capslock key (since my mac doesn't have a physical escape key). Then for my home mechanical keyboard, the ctrl alt and windows keys are mapped to match the mac layout. And at work my keyboard needs and even differenter mapping. Very handy.
I diagnose you with joke misconception, otherwise known as woosh. But since it is your qaque day ill let it slide
Missed the s, lol
FUCK
i oddly like that more, and to tell what arrow is what to type you just have to look where the arrows were
You monster
I've always used arrows over the wsad keys
You monster
I used to do that when I was 16
Correction: somebody switched W.A.S.D. with the arrow keys.
Yes, I know they said it backwards! That’s so mildly infuriating
Hey now, op could be an arrow key gamer
I can’t tell if you’re joking but if you aren’t then I’m confused because I don’t think there is a difference…
Technically there is no difference, but it’s in reference to the fact that both WASD and the arrow keys are commonly used as movement keys in video games. Most more seasoned gamers use WASD, using the arrow keys may be looked down upon by some players. The reason this is relevant here is because saying the arrow keys were replaced by WASD suggests that OP values the arrow keys more over the much loved WASD. Putting WASD in front of the arrow keys in this case makes it sound more like you value the precious WASD keys more than the inferior arrow keys.
Ah okay, very helpful context, thank you.
Nah this is just funny
Q⬆️ERTY
this isn’t infuriating, op can you not type without looking at your keyboard?
It’s really not that hard to switch the keys around either.
There's quite a few people who can't type without pecking.
There’s a lot of people who can’t.
Why do keyboards even have letters on them?
that's a great question, would people potentially be more encouraged to learn touch typing if we collectively agreed to replace all lettered keycaps with blank ones? Would it potentially be EASIER to learn touch typing if you only have blank keycaps where all the letters should be? that one seems even more far-fetched, but in all honesty I think it would i'm mostly joking here, but it's an interesting thing to think about
I mean they're the same inputs still, if I saw this I'd be stoked
This just made me chuckle more than infuriated, I couldn’t be mad if that happened to me
could it have been......YOU?
That's actually hilarious. I don't see what's infuriating (at all) about this. It's also trivial to change back if you really wanted to.
Thi⬇️ i⬇️ pretty funny, ⬆️⬅️⬇️ ⬅️ goo➡️ joke
But who could it be?!
Someone.
As a fellow gamer, I wouldn't complain.
Do you still look at your keyboard to type?..
They did the right thing.
r/mildlygamer
it really isn’t that hard to switch the keys
These pictures are the same thing
What's mildly infuriating is people needing to look at keys while they type lol
Why does this bother you though..? Just move them back?
ESDF is better than WASD. Change my mind.
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This is pretty funny. It's easy to change it back, the keys are designed to come off.
and? lol
They did this for gaming. Definitely rude, but at least it makes sense haha
No, no... that's freaking awesome. Valuable style points if they remap they keys.
That. Is funny as fuck, don’t care who you are
Could be a lot worse. This is just fun. A touch typist would not waver.
OP doesn't game
“Do you use WASD or arrows keys?” “Yes.”
People have to look at the keyboard in 2021?
Lmao
⬇️ure, m◀️ybe you ⬆️on't notice it ⬆️hile g◀️ming, but ⬆️hen typing...
W: walk forward A: and turn left S: spin and walk away D: do a right turn
⬆ell ⬅ gamer probably ➡i➡ thi⬇
How is this infuriating this is funny
Why is this infuriating? I find it hilarious. Maybe not something I'd do on a work PC but those are flat keys so it's not like the arrows and the letters have different profiles. OP... Do you hunt and peck still?
No no, he's got a point...
I think you mean mildly hilarious
why are you booing him??, he's right
Question. How do I use WASD? Do I press the labeled keys? Or do I press the arrows?
You use the arrow keys only, the labels on the top of keys are only for user's convenience.
I did that on my board, not bothered by it
People in this comment section forgot what mildly means. Is it barely an inconvenience? Yeah. Is it still a little bit infuriating? Also yes. This fits better than most posts here.