I moved from California to Paris – here’s the most bizarre thing about French people

An American-turned-Parisian has revealed the shocking way French people type in comparison to Americans. 

Soldana, 26, moved from California to France to pursue her music career, but her location change prompted her to become a full-on Parisian, with her adapting every aspect of her life to French culture. 

And while she has transformed everything from her skincare to her outfits to match the styles of a true Parisian, there seems to be one thing she can’t get on board with – the French typing style. 

In a clip shared to her TikTok, Soldana stunned her over 43,000 followers by sharing the ‘wild’ way French people type on keyboards. 

Soldana, 26, moved from California to France to pursue her music career, but her location change prompted her to become full on Parisian

In a clip shared to her TikTok, Soldana stunned her over 43,000 followers by sharing the ‘wild’ way French people type on keyboards 

‘I’m willing to bet that you never knew this about French people. I’ve just made the wildest discovery,’ the singer said at the beginning of her video. 

Then, she explained that while everyone knows there are plenty of cultural differences between French and American people, she never thought the number of fingers they type with was one of them. 

‘But did you know that French people only type with these fingers,’ she said while showing her index fingers and thumbs.

‘I have proof, look at this video of my French boyfriend typing in the car next to me,’ she said before showing the clip of her beau. 

Soldana said that her partner wasn’t the first French person she had seen type that way either. 

‘In the US we type with all of our fingers,’ she added. 

She then explained that when she was younger she took a typing class, in which she was taught to type with all of her fingers. 

‘When I was six, we had a computer class and I was trained by a software called Type to Learn, where we assigned one or multiple letters to each finger,’ Soldana explained. 

At the end of the clip, Soldana said she is not claiming either way is better than the other

And although many people may claim the variation in typing is due to the different keyboards, Soldana said this is not the case.

The French keyboard, known as the Azerty, is very similar to the American keyboard, the Qwerty. 

The keyboards have the same layout, except that the Q and A, and Z and W are swapped. The M is also in the middle row instead of the bottom one. 

And, Soldana said that the difference in the way of typing has ‘nothing to do’ with the keyboard variations. 

At the end of the clip, Soldana said she is not claiming either way is better than the other. 

Viewers rushed to the comments section to share their thoughts, with many French people admitting they type that way

Viewers rushed to the comments section to share their thoughts, with many French people admitting they type that way. 

One person wrote: ‘French here & you just made me realize I only use my index fingers to type.’ 

‘That’s because they like to lose time,’ commented another person. 

Another user added: ‘[I] studied abroad at a French university and noticed this!’

‘They do what,’ another person wrote.