Keyboard questions! Can you type without looking at the keys? Do you have a preferred format or make of keyboard?

[motoash@lemmy.world]

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.

[tankplanker@lemmy.world]

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.

[p1nkman@lemmy.world]

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.

[mac@mander.xyz]

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.

[littleomid@feddit.org]

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.

[hddsx@lemmy.ca]

Well, the ploopy trackballs keep getting better

[jaxxed@lemmy.ml]

One word: miryoku

[motoash@lemmy.world]

Ahh very neat. Though those prices are insanely steep... I also kinda' want a different button arrangement, button mechanisms, and ergonomics than any of their offerings.

Still a worthy suggestion for most, though!

[hakunahafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

1. Yes.
2. I really enjoy my Ducky One 3 with Cherry MX brown switches.

[xia@lemmy.sdf.org]

Yes, I touch-type, and use a kinesis advantage keyboard that makes touch typing "almost unavoidable" (as one blogger wrote). I also use the Dvorak layout, and get nearly 100 wpm without really trying (and using low-effort brain-to-keyboard data transfer is the way to go, imho).

[deathgrindfreak@awful.systems]

Been a touch typist for a while now, but I prefer my IBM Model M as a daily driver. I have a new modern take on the IBM Model F coming in in a few weeks that I'm very stoked about. Buckling spring switches are the best keyboard types ever made.

[nomecks@lemmy.ca]

1. Yes
2. HP DC7700 office desktop accessory keyboard. I had a stockpile of them but sadly I'm down to my last one

[hatchetharo@pawb.social]

Yes, QWERTY at 110wpm with standard left hand and only using index and middle fingers on my right hand, on a normal ISO layout on my Wooting 80HE.