Typing on your phone or laptop can also become unnecessarily inconvenient. When you use your nails to type, you could end up with a scratched screen/keyboard, a broken nail, and plenty of typos.

20 years ago, competitive typing became all the rage in the school computer lab thanks to sessions of edutainment favorite Type to Learn.

Reinhardt, a 24-year-old freelance photographer and part-time barista in Seattle, was staring at her computer and scanning the keyboard for her next letter, since she doesn’t know how to touch-type.