Definition of "hunt-and-peck" []

• A slow method of typing in which an untrained typist seeks out each key before striking it. (noun)

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• "Another cool thing about the phone: Its touch-screen menu mimics that of the home screen on your iPhone or Android device—far easier than the archaic hunt-and-peck menu systems so many digital cameras still use today."
• "Endgadget pointed up that they could use the keyboard easily in landscape mode, but were forced to do hunt-and-peck in portrait mode."
• "It seems his class had received no keyboarding instruction prior to this, and her primary concern was that "hunt-and-peck" would become her grandson's "default brain template.""