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Per Fitts's law [1], your screen is a lot bigger than the keyboard and your pointer is a lot farther from most targets, than your fingers on the keyboard that y
by zzzcpan 10y ago
Per Fitts's law [1], your screen is a lot bigger than the keyboard and your pointer is a lot farther from most targets, than your fingers on the keyboard that you keep on those "asdf" "jkl;" keys. So you can't be faster with mouse on most shortcuts most of the time.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law
- Shorel 10y agoUsing a good mouse and disabling mouse acceleration I can certainly be quite fast, only a fraction of a second slower than using a keyboard shortcut. With mouse acceleration, or with a trackpad, I think I agree with you. It also depends on the task. I can select and move a piece of text from one place to another faster with the mouse than with any way of keyboard shortcuts. For example, using vim shortcuts I have to count the number of lines I need to move the cursor before typing the order and it is always faster for me to just move the mouse cursor than to count the lines.
- zzzcpan 10y agoThe task is a point-and-click interface, for other tasks keyboards are not very useful of course, having only things to click on them and all.