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Why do the "F" and "J" keys on a keyboard have bumps?

And more importantly, did you even realize they had bumps before now? O_o

Posted - May 10, 2020
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  • 19937
    When you learn to touch type (without looking at the keys), those are the two keys where your hands are supposed to be to hit all the other keys.  
      May 10, 2020 3:19 PM MDT
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  • 10611
    Touch typing.   Pointer fingers go on F and J (home row), thumbs on spacebar.  All keys are able to be accessed easily from this position.
      May 10, 2020 3:44 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    When you learn to touch type,
    your index fingers stay (most of the time) in contact with the F and J keys.

    It's the feel that tells you where you are,
    helps find the relative positions of the other keys,
    makes faster speed possible.



    This post was edited by inky at May 11, 2020 1:51 AM MDT
      May 10, 2020 3:45 PM MDT
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  • 8209
    They are just landmarks on the Keyboard highway.  To let you know where the middle is.
      May 10, 2020 4:25 PM MDT
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  • 44583
    Holy F key. I never noticed that. Do cellphone keypads have bumps there, too?
      May 10, 2020 4:56 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    My God...I have two bumps on me Ive just realized too .....I know dam well they are handy ,but they are not for for all types two touch if I recall correctly ..:( 
      May 10, 2020 6:59 PM MDT
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  • 53485

     Are they labeled F and J?

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      May 10, 2020 7:03 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    No,!  My Tatts two are not Tattooed ....Generally they are the stating points though that always lead down in this case two greater things....  :)D 
      May 10, 2020 7:16 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Only two?

    I'd have guessed at least two pairs of bumps, depending on the definition of bump, and the angle of view.
      May 11, 2020 12:13 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    I have heard of women with three, lol.
      May 11, 2020 1:53 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I have seen photos....she was blonde and had three perfectly formed boobs...it's strangers as they diddn't look out of place...
    Its not as uncommon as you'd think....here have been females born with eighteen going down their bodies in two lines ...when nature messes up ,it creates all sorts of deformities in every living growing thing...Plus there is not one single living growing thing that has not suffered any changes in their structures as they evolve...most so they can servive and improve and we don't get to see that many of natures cock ups ....Maybe that's also why humans in power lie about the the terrible things they have brought about and done or had a ha d in doing....
      May 11, 2020 4:42 AM MDT
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  • 44583
    18? Talk about a true wet-nurse.
      May 11, 2020 8:44 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Read medical books abd you'll be astonished at what you'll see...
      May 11, 2020 9:44 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I only look down on Nice things....my feet are pretty to....lol
      May 11, 2020 4:43 AM MDT
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  • 34171
    Helps real typists stay on the correct letters without looking. 

    Old cell phones with actual keypads and some remotes have a bump on the number five again so you know where you are on the keys without looking. 

    An old phone of mine somehow got a friend of my son's Mother on speed dial #5.  She said we called her all the time. No telling how many minutes we burned not knowing it.  She said was always worried we were might be "saying or doing anything she would really not want to hear." 
    Anyway I got that fixed right after she told me. 
      May 10, 2020 5:28 PM MDT
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  • 53485
      For purposes of decorum, I was forced to answer this in a private message.  (Cough, cough.)

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      May 10, 2020 6:26 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    Since when do you care about decorum? :p 
      May 10, 2020 7:18 PM MDT
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  • 53485

      Don't you have a couple of bumps that I should know more about?



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      May 10, 2020 11:39 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    "... about which I should know more."
      May 11, 2020 7:17 AM MDT
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  • 53485
      May 11, 2020 7:19 AM MDT
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  • 17582
    I remember in class.............ffjj ffjj ffjj fjfj fjfj jjff jjff jfjf.  The bumps are for hand positioning....kind of like middle C on the piano.
      May 11, 2020 11:06 AM MDT
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  • 3045
    Those 2, I think are both called center placed keys.
      May 16, 2020 5:28 PM MDT
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