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hunt and peck

Form of typing employed by novices in which they search for and strike each and every key one by one on a keyboard, normally using only their index fingers --considered slow and inefficient

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  • First known use in 1939
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It is unfortunate that my therapist never took a simple typing class, because it is apparent that the hunt and peck technique is all he knows.

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