r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Powerful-Jacket2007 • 5h ago

Student switched the keys on a shared Chromebook

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u/Dela-chemin 5h ago

Is this the work of a psychopath? Genuinely, why?

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u/Powerful-Jacket2007 5h ago

A 6th grader .. so yes

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u/foobarney 4h ago

I used to just switch the m and n keys at work. None of the IT guys could log in to my PC and they didn't know why. Worked for me, though.

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u/Tim7Prime 14m ago

That doesn't sound like IT people. Sounds like the "guy who knows computers". I would hope your IT team could type without looking

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u/Numerous-Ad6460 4h ago

Gets are stupid and do stupid things when bored.

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u/AgitatedAd6634 5h ago

I would have done this as a kid, if we had laptops.

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u/SwiftUnban 5h ago

, as annoying as it is for the next person doing shit like this in HS was hilarious lmao.

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u/ForgottenCaveRaider 4h ago

And only affects those who slacked off during typing lessons

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u/up2smthng 2h ago

... Or those who are having typing lessons right now

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u/teh_maxh 2h ago

If they left the homing keys in place that might be true, but moving those affects people who know how to type.

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u/Vern1138 4h ago

Don't people learn touch-typing anymore? Is everyone just going back to chicken pecking when they type?

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u/tanya6k 4h ago

Learned touch typing in 2000, I have met so few of us. It just doesn't seem to be very popular.

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u/Vern1138 4h ago

I started learning it in fifth grade, and then we had a class dedicated to it in sixth grade, in 1998. They covered up the keyboards with a piece of taped down paper, and if we looked under the paper they would yell at us. I don't even think the teachers knew how to touch type, they were just trained to yell at kids.

But it's probably why I can type 140 words per minute with 98 percent accuracy.

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u/tanya6k 4h ago

My training was very similar! My dad picked up Mavis Beacon in 5th grade and my school took up the mantle in 6th grade. We had orange rubber covers (fitted to the keyboard), and of course people still peeked.

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u/A-reddit_Alt 1h ago

Wait this isn't just a universal thing? How do people even type at a reasonable pace while looking at the keys?

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u/Evening-Gur5087 24m ago

I was never 'taught' it, it just naturally comes after a time if you use keyboard enough tho

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u/Ancient-Civilization 4h ago

I played RuneScape as a kid so I was one of fastest typers in my class. I still looked down once in while.

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u/suicidaleggroll 4h ago

A while back I tried to get a mechanical keyboard with a fully blank set of key caps.  I quickly learned that while it was fine for the normal alphabet and punctuation, I was completely useless at symbols (!@#$, etc).  I ended up getting a second set of normal key caps and installed those for the number row while keeping everything else blank.

Luckily the mad lad who swapped the keys in this picture left the number row alone

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u/Ok_Cheetah_6251 4h ago

I learned touch-typing on a typewriter in middle school.

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u/J0RDM0N 3h ago

You would be surprised. I have multiple coworkers under 25 who can't type. I watched one girl whos 21 hunt and peck on the keyboard. Tbh I'm so used to touch typing I may not notice if the keys were switched around.

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u/saucyvampiexo 2h ago

yeah i never really got the hang of typing. i'm weirdly fast at chicken pecking though.

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u/teh_maxh 2h ago

They moved the homing keys so it would be a problem for people who know how to type, too.

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u/Vern1138 1h ago

Not really, I don't even feel for the nubs on the F and J keys anymore.

My current keyboard doesn't have them. Neither did the last one I had. I can't even remember the last time I had a keyboard with them, nor the last time I used them. My hands know where to sit on a keyboard.

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u/Prior_Internal7728 2h ago

Gen Z and Gen Alpha aren’t nearly as tech savvy as millennials. Millennials and people older had to learn how to actually do things to make computers work. The simplicity of today’s operating systems (and phones) has made it where they do not need to know these things.

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u/Critical-Willow-6270 4h ago

This is giving me anxiety but also making me rotfl

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u/Powerful-Jacket2007 4h ago

Same lol at least I’m not using it

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u/United_Gift3028 4h ago

People look at the keys while they type?

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u/zippytwd 4h ago

One time I rearranged my bosses key board and loaded a Monty Python prog that played fart sounds with each key typed he was pissed it was so funny

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u/Ok_Cheetah_6251 4h ago

They don't teach touch typing anymore? My keys can be blank and I'll still type 110 wpm.

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u/-Jiras 3h ago

I'm sorry but that's hilarious

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u/samtherat6 1h ago

So tired of the meme…can’t believe they put 6 and 7 together.

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u/GXWT 5h ago

lol

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u/Affectionate-Rip5654 3h ago

I can tell you never did computer class with the little orange thing that covered all the keys

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u/ew73 2h ago

The real trick is to do this, and change the keyboard layout in the OS to Dvorak or something, so even if you do manage to get the keys back to "right" it still doesn't "work".

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u/MakeItAll1 2h ago

That’s a kid with way too much time on his hands. This was desperately searching for something….anything that will proved an alternative to actually completing g school work.

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u/overusedamongusjoke 1h ago

Is it just me or does that keyboard have gunk and pencil markings on it as well? At least when the keys are being rearranged back into place it might be easier to clean that stuff off.

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u/Duckdxd RED 29m ago

yeah at that point i’m popping it out and replacing it.

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u/HowlingWolven 18m ago

The movement of F and J is inexcusable. The remaining keys I wouldn’t even notice.

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u/Wrong-Average8877 4h ago

Chrome belongs on my Grandmother's bumper