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0 pointsglobular-toast6mo ago0 comments

Your handwriting skills are due to lack of practice. You weren't born typing at 121wpm.

I prefer typing for anything longer than a few words. But I can't type a picture (despite things like Mermaid and PlantUML) being useful.

I make extensive use of paper (and whiteboards if I'm sharing) for making pictures, mostly graph-like things such as flow diagrams, sequences, ERD etc. I feel somewhat "disabled" if I'm forced to just screen technology to do it (although Excalidraw is pretty good).

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gxs6mo ago

I don’t know man, my point was more than I probably don’t lean the actual skill of writing fast, it wasn’t necessary lack of practice

All through college I had to write extensively and still never got anywhere near that speed

I do wonder about raw limits - unless you learn a specific shorthand, I can’t imagine writing out the word “something” faster than I can type it - unless as an example I used sm instead

KaiserPro6mo ago

> Your handwriting skills are due to lack of practice.

I mean thats a broad generalisation. As someone who spent a lot of time in remedial English, I don't think thats actually true.

Typing enabled me to go to uni. It turns out that actually I'm shit at handwriting rather than english.

Ironically I have a wacom tablet as a pointer device, because its faster than a mouse.

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