This has always confused me.

Ever seen a non-technical user move the mouse with the same dexterity as you or I? I haven’t. The mouse always roams around for a month of Sundays before it eventually arrives in the right place.

It took me a week or two to master the mouse. I haven’t gotten significantly better at it since I started using a mouse in 1994 or so. It’s not hard. So it always makes me wonder what the hell is going on when someone (not old, not disabled, just non-technical) who has been using a computer for 20+ years has difficultly being at all accurate with a mouse.

I guess I just cannot understand why people don’t get better at tasks like this, even in areas that involve basic dexterity only, when it has to do with a computer. It’s like if I attempted to play the piano for 20 years but couldn’t even muddle through “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” at the end of all that time.

I can’t explain it. I don’t even know how to think about it, which bothers me.