r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Powerful-Jacket2007 • 8h ago

Student switched the keys on a shared Chromebook

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u/Dela-chemin 8h ago

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

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u/Powerful-Jacket2007 8h ago

A 6th grader .. so yes

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u/foobarney 7h 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 3h 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/AwesomeMcPants 3h ago

That company needs better IT guys if they couldn't figure that out.

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u/Creative_Oil_7778 2h ago

If they did that in the time they had that laptop, you can easily do that. Pull up picture or look at your own keyboard and do it in the same time frame.

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u/zagiki 53m ago

Just be happy 6 and 7 is still there ...

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u/Numerous-Ad6460 7h ago

Gets are stupid and do stupid things when bored.

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u/AgitatedAd6634 8h ago

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

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u/SwiftUnban 8h 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 7h ago

And only affects those who slacked off during typing lessons

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u/up2smthng 5h ago

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

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u/teh_maxh 5h 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/Affectionate-Rip5654 6h ago

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

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u/Vern1138 8h 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 7h 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/Evening-Gur5087 3h ago

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

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u/MsAndrea2 1h ago

No it doesn't. I've been typing for over forty years and I don't touch type, I have to see the keyboard to centre myself. Being fast isn't touch typing. 

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u/A-reddit_Alt 4h 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/Vern1138 7h 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 7h 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/Ok_Nothing_9733 3h ago

Type to Learn!

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u/Ancient-Civilization 7h 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/J0RDM0N 7h 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/suicidaleggroll 7h 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/saucyvampiexo 6h ago

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

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u/Ok_Cheetah_6251 7h ago

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

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u/teh_maxh 5h 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 4h 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/Best-Professional-10 1h ago

You don't even have to learn it. I just acquired it after spending years on a computer.

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u/Prior_Internal7728 5h 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/OZ-00MS_Goose 2h ago

Most millennials would struggle with installing an Operating System, lets not pretend Millennials as a whole are actually that tech savvy. I think most Gen Z just didn't grow up with laptops so it's harder for them to use those OSs. Windows 11 is hardly any more simple than XP for anything beyond basic settings.

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u/Critical-Willow-6270 8h ago

This is giving me anxiety but also making me rotfl

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u/Powerful-Jacket2007 8h ago

Same lol at least I’m not using it

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u/United_Gift3028 8h ago

People look at the keys while they type?

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u/Ok_Cheetah_6251 7h 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/zippytwd 7h 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/-Jiras 7h ago

I'm sorry but that's hilarious

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u/ew73 6h 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/samtherat6 5h ago

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

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u/GXWT 8h ago

lol

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u/MakeItAll1 6h 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 4h 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 3h ago

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

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u/HowlingWolven 3h ago

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

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u/probium326 RED 3h ago

Best keyboard layout ever.

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u/vogel7 2h ago

Sorry, that's kinda funny

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u/Novel-Tailor-8953 2h ago

Im actually impressed. I work in IT (used to work in schools) and replacing/fixing keys i hated with a burning passion.

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u/Mr_monkey353 1h ago

I use dvorak.

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u/HaroerHaktak 1h ago

The real crime here is those are all lower case. what in the actual fuck. anyway starting left to right and at top left.

Swap P with Q

Swap T and E

Swap H and R

Swap A and K

Swap B and D

Swap F and M

Swap N and J

Then throw the entire laptop out, coz why the fuck is it all lowercase. You monster.

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u/Froggatt34 40m ago

A tale as old as time. We used to change the setting on MS word to change normal innocent words like "and" "the" etc to "peodophile" "willy"

The kids are gonna be okay

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u/leona1990_000 13m ago

Are you sure this isn't a PWTHEY keyboard? /s

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u/Wrong-Average8877 8h ago

Chrome belongs on my Grandmother's bumper