The benefit of this method is that this is how typing has been taught for over a century. The drawback is that youll have to trudge through nearly 90 lessons before you begin typing natural language.

The good news is that your computer is neither possessed nor communicating with parallel universes, and the backwards typing can be solved very easily.

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.