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many consider it best to touch type your normal layout (colemak, qwerty) and to use hunt-and-peck when forced to use qwerty. it helps not messing up muscle memo
by wbolster 10y ago
many consider it best to touch type your normal layout (colemak, qwerty) and to use hunt-and-peck when forced to use qwerty. it helps not messing up muscle memory for the normal layout, since hunt and peck is a conscious effort.
- NoGravitas 10y agoI learned to touch-type QWERTY in high school. 20 years later, I learned to touch-type Colemak, and eventually got up to the same speed. For a while, I couldn't really touch-type QWERTY. But gradually I regained the ability. It still helps for me to be looking at the keyboard, so that I have a different context to go with the different layout. But I am still using 10 fingers when typing QWERTY.