hunt and peck

1. noun A method of typing in which one seeks out and presses each letter on the keyboard individually, especially using only one's index fingers to do so. Often hyphenated as "hunt-and-peck." Hunt-and-peck was the only way my grandmother knew, because she just couldn't develop the muscle memory to remember where each letter was on the keyboard. If you want to be my assistant, you've got to ditch the hunt and peck. I can't sit around waiting for you to find each letter while I'm dictating a memo! Come on, Dad, we've had a computer for decades. Why are you still doing the hunt and peck?

2. verb To type on a keyboard in such a manner. The new intern clearly doesn't have much computer experience. Watching him hunt and peck his way through each email is just excruciating! I don't know how she churns out so much material, given the fact that she still hunts and pecks! Kids don't hunt and peck anymore—it's like they come out of the womb knowing how to use a keyboard!

hunting and pecking

A method of typing in which one seeks out and presses each letter on the keyboard individually, especially using only one's index fingers to do so. Hunting and pecking was the only way my grandmother knew, because she just couldn't develop the muscle memory to remember where each letter was on the keyboard. If you want to be my assistant, you've got to ditch the hunting and pecking. I can't sit around waiting for you to find each letter while I'm dictating a memo! Kids today don't even know what hunting and pecking is. It's like they come out of the womb knowing how to use a keyboard!