Keyboard questions! Can you type without looking at the keys? Do you have a preferred format or make of keyboard?
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Yes, I love typing and do it quickly. I guess I prefer QWERTY but only because that's the one I learned on and got good at. I hate keys that are too flat, like laptops and some office keyboards trying too hard to look streamlined.
When I'm thinking of how to spell a word, in my mind's eye I see it being typed out and that's how I find the correct spelling.
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I can; but, while we had Mario Teaches Typing in school, I absolutely hated the cognitive effort and preferred to Hunt and Peck.
I love computers, though, so my brain eventually memorized the keyboard just from constant use; now I generally type without looking (with a pretty average 44 WpM) but primarily just use my index fingers to do so.
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Keychron? Which one? Don’t leave me hanging like that.
Keychron Q6 Max. with aftermarket switches of... some random type I forgot long ago. Quiet tactile switches that trigger at a slightly more shallow depth.
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Keychron Q6 Max. with aftermarket switches of... some random type I forgot long ago. Quiet tactile switches that trigger at a slightly more shallow depth.
Nice. Unfortunately My keychron (k10 pro I think) just sits in a corner because it’s really hard to switch back to monolith after using a split. The quality of my split isn’t even half as good as the keychron, but it feels really uncomfortable to use the keychron now
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I can; but, while we had Mario Teaches Typing in school, I absolutely hated the cognitive effort and preferred to Hunt and Peck.
I love computers, though, so my brain eventually memorized the keyboard just from constant use; now I generally type without looking (with a pretty average 44 WpM) but primarily just use my index fingers to do so.
Is 44wpm average? I thought more like 60-80 was average, but maybe my impression is off because of being somewhat active in mechanical keyboard groups
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Nice. Unfortunately My keychron (k10 pro I think) just sits in a corner because it’s really hard to switch back to monolith after using a split. The quality of my split isn’t even half as good as the keychron, but it feels really uncomfortable to use the keychron now
They seem to have a few ergonomic ones these days, though still not seeing any splits. I suppose if you wanted to be crazy you could get two 60%'s and keymap them to a funky split but that's almost certainly too weird and expensive to be worth it. lol
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They seem to have a few ergonomic ones these days, though still not seeing any splits. I suppose if you wanted to be crazy you could get two 60%'s and keymap them to a funky split but that's almost certainly too weird and expensive to be worth it. lol
Unfortunately, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole and am looking into building my own
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On the contrary, my repeated failure in learning to touch-type qwerty are why I learned dvorak: it was reported to be easier to use. And it is! It's not advanced typing, it's Easy Mode.
Faskinatin'!
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Yes. 70%. Kailh Box Navys.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]I can't even imagine not typing blind, without looking at keys.
Fun fact: My left hand is not 10-finger-syste-positioned but WASD gamer-system positioned. Works fine anyway for blind and fast typing.
QWERTZ. Cherry Keyboard, mechanical keys, full with numpad.
I did look into alternative layouts like DVORAK a long time ago, but it didn't seem worth the investment of relearning. Current works good enough. (Even as a coder where parens and braces are more cumbersome than EN layouts.)
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Is 44wpm average? I thought more like 60-80 was average, but maybe my impression is off because of being somewhat active in mechanical keyboard groups
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Heh, it might; granted, I'd just done a cursory glance since I was at work, at the time, but, taking a further look, it seems that 40 WpM is average with 50s and 60s being above average.
Granted, that include people who aren't touch typists so that might bring the numbers down.
I also tried retaking a typing test again as, the first time, I'd done one that was only a minute (again, being at work); I did another random one and got 66 WpM and another one that was 5 minutes and got 61 WpM. So I also seemed to undersell myself in that first comment, it looks like.
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I can't even imagine not typing blind, without looking at keys.
Fun fact: My left hand is not 10-finger-syste-positioned but WASD gamer-system positioned. Works fine anyway for blind and fast typing.
QWERTZ. Cherry Keyboard, mechanical keys, full with numpad.
I did look into alternative layouts like DVORAK a long time ago, but it didn't seem worth the investment of relearning. Current works good enough. (Even as a coder where parens and braces are more cumbersome than EN layouts.)
Hilarious to me that you learned to type from gamer-position, while l learned to game from typing position.
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I use Dvorak btw
But yeah I touch type, but I often need to look to use qwerty when I'm on someone else's computer
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Yes, we had a computer lab in grade school that we would go to maybe once a week or once every two weeks. We learned qwerty and the teacher would cover your hands with paper so you couldn't look. It was infuriating at the time but once I learned it, I was set for life. I don't really think about it, it's just like speaking a language to me. For the most part I type properly but I have gotten into a strange habit of hitting delete with my middle finger instead of my pinky finger. No clue why/when that started and I have to reach over farther but now that's second nature as well. I recall if you got good enough you could play around on the games in Mavis Beacon!
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120 wpm peak; comfortably 100 with high accuracy. Playing online games with no mic had me typing fast. Then I got a heavy data entry job. Not winning competitions, but I'm pretty happy considering I don't follow the formal method.
I have a specific old Dell membrane keyboard I prefer over anything I've tried. Not a fan of mechanical keyboards. Tried blues and browns.
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Unfortunately, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole and am looking into building my own
I feel you. I'm 'this' close to making my own trackball. Just uhh... as soon as I finish up some other non-computer projects first... damn time always doing the time thing.
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I use only 40% and 30% keyboards, thats ones without dedicated number or f key rows, and have done so for about six years now. Majority I use are standard stagger but a few are ortho or splits. Almost all of them that I like using are split space with left half as enter and the right as space.
I can touch type, although I am not the fastest, only a bit above 80wpm. This is mostly due to me being dyslexic so spelling is challenging for me and I can get bogged down looking up words or retyping it. If I do not give a shit about spelling I can easily get well over 100wpm.
I think the main show off skill I can do is look at a person I am talking to while typing a different conversation on the computer. Obviously I cannot do either if its complicated conversations but simple stuff is fine.
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Got tendonitis, so I used Kinesis Advantage for many years. Then the Glove80 came out, which I consider even better than any of the Kinesis Advantage, and I've had all models. And yes, I type without looking.
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Yes, I can touch-type.
I prefer colemak but abandoned it due to the prevalence of QWERTY.
I quite like 60% boards with tactile and clicky switches.
I've only used a few makes so i couldn't say if i preferred one over another. -
I had computer keyboards in mind when posting this, but players of the instrument are welcome to answer too
QWERTY at about 130-140 wpm, but not 10 finger. 10 finger ortholinear about 100 wpm, and about 90 wpm on staggered. As I was trying workman, I managed to type at about 50-60 wpm.
