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Ask Slashdot: A 'Mavis Beacon' For Teaching Smartphone and Tablet Typing?
theodp writes: "Where have you gone, Mavis Beacon? A nation of smartphone and tablet typists could use your help. You've seen people type fast-and-furiously on smartphones and tablets, so you know it can be done, but how exactly do these one- and two-fingered wonders (YouTube video) manage to do so? Is it their reaction time? Technique? Both? Back in the day, touch-typing teachers showed kids the secrets to higher word-per-minute scores on their Smith Coronas. Later, typing tutor software got kids up-to-speed on PCs. So, with over 1 billion smartphones and 200 million or so tablets shipped in 2013, what are the best software and tutorials that teach mobile typing techniques? And what platform specific features — iOS, Android, WP8/Win8, BB — do you find make your mobile typing life a whole lot easier?"
Nerd alert, get laid in 2015, 2014 is a write off for you.
I'm not kidding. I know this will be modded down as offtopic or a troll but a few hours ago I went to take a piss before going out and just as I was finishing diarrhea came out of my ass and ruined my shorts and my whole day so far really. It was all over my buttcheeks and when I wiped it got on my index finger and stained it dark yellow. Then I got into the shower and squatted down and got rid of what I hope was the rest of it till I blew some more or less solid chunks out of my ass. I got most of it down the drain but I did have to pick up some of it with toilet paper. I tried to clean my shorts as best as possible and put them into a plastic bag to wash with bleach later. It took me a long time to clean myself up and really took a lot out of me and now I feel weak and I hope it doesn't happen to me again today (or anytime soon for that matter). In the old days on Slashdot you might read something like this from the Turdreport dude http://slashdot.org/~The+Turd+Report/ but he hasn't posted or commented since 2005, I think he had some kind of kidney disease or something and he's probably dead now. Too bad, I really enjoyed his posts, him and PizzaAnalogyGuy. Anyway, I've got to take a long walk later and I hope I don't have another episode. Thanks for taking the time to read this Slashdotters, you're the best.