I feel like I used to see a lot of women with super long nails struggling to use their touchscreen phones. I’m sure at least some of them have chosen slightly shorter nails to make it easier.

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      Also a woman who doesn’t like long nails. They creep me out, especially when they start to curl.

      The one who use their finger tips, make a very distinct clicking noise too.

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      Nope.

      Time for everyone’s favourite statistics lesson, “anecdotal evidence don’t mean shit”!

      OP did say average after all.

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    The prevelance of touchscreens much rather results in people lacking skills/efficiency/speed when using a regular computer keyboard

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      Ironically, I can almost type as fast on my phone (102 WPM PB) as I can on most keyboards (110 WPM PB), and that’s with my weird improper method of touch typing. These scores are for the 15 second word test on MonkeyType.

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        But I would assume you’re used to using a ‘manual’ keyboard whereas if you only grew up on touchscreens its probably more difficult to get familiar to.

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          No idea; does autocorrect even exist in an inbuilt fashion on Windows? I’ve never really tried using anything like that.

          Oh, and here’s a one-off test I just did without autocorrection turned on. With a few more tries, I’m sure I could get up to 100+.

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    Ever gone through a Walmart checkout?

    I’ve never seen longer nails than on those cashiers, and they have to press buttons and touch screens all the damn time.

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      Wow, you simply stated your own experience, and you get almost as many downvotes as upvotes.

      Lemmy is quickly becoming as toxic as reddit.

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        Men don’t like seeing women on their internet platforms, especially if they’re not taking negatively about female traits, like having long nails.

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    It’s trivial to use a touchscreen with nails of arbitrary length if you’re used to it. You can easily just use the side, where the cuticle is. If you put on acrylics you’ll have some trouble adjusting, but if you let it grow naturally you’ll adjust as they grow

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    I tend to think that eventually they will only have fake long nails, and only when getting dressed up for something fancy.

    I’m general in the future teens will make memes about long nails like they do now for something like the hamburger phone, or JNCOs, or whatever 00’s trend.

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    Eh technology will change again, before we see any major changes. I remember reading some fifteen years ago that due to texting on an oldschool mobile phone, our thumbs might evolve in a new way because we all of a sudden used thumbs in a new way. Some scientists predicted we’d started using thumbs for tasks we’d otherwise use our index fingers for.

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      It could, however, make a social trend for shorter fingernails (primarily on women, I imagine). Just meaning people are more likely to trim their nails shorter.

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        I know, but it might be a short trend (pardon the pun). It’s also not a trend currently supported by my personal anecdotal evidence.

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    I bite my nails and I fucking hate using touchscreens and touchpads without some kind of stylus.