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Those preferred viewing angles from Hill and Kroemer ( http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140138608967228 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0
by leoc 9y ago
Those preferred viewing angles from Hill and Kroemer ( http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140138608967228 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140138608967228 ?) seem distinctly low. My uneducated guess is that those results, from people asked to use computer workstations in 1986, probably reflect hunt-and-peck typists' need to move their eyes frequently between keyboard and screen. That leaves you in basically the same situation as a seated touchscreen user or seated pen-and-paper draughtsman, for whom a diagonally sloped work surface is the best compromise between the near-vertical viewing angle of a cinema screen and the need to see your hands while avoiding gorilla arm. (While the dead-level surface of most modern desks is mostly optimised for piling crap on.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8444990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8444990 For touch typing I assume that a more cinema-like viewing angle is better.
- qwerty_asdf 9y agoThese days, though, there's an odd mix of typists, because everyone is self taught, and most people have begun typing as soon as they learn how to read and write. Both touch typing and hunt and peck typing are in severe decline. Mobile devices have created all kinds of mutants, and no one gives a shit about "the home row" anymore. I watch those old videos about posture and training oneself to type without looking at the keyboard by typing endless garbage over and over, and I have to laugh, because I've never seen anything less important seem like such obvious brainwashing.
- lordfoom 9y ago>because I've never seen anything less important seem like such obvious brainwashing. I take it you're not a touch typist? What kind of wpm do you get?
- qwerty_asdf 9y agoWPM is an archaic metric, and as my top speed I target only a reasonable conversational pace in chat windows, comparable to verbal conversation. Anything more is kind of a waste. As long as people don't feel like my pace of typing is lagging during a chat, I don't really need to be much faster than that. I don't have a problem meeting those demands, and composing my thoughts, and contemplating what I wish to type usually consumes more time than the act of typing itself. Bandwidth measured in bytes probably makes more sense these days. But again, I haven't bothered to measure how fast I type, other than a gut intuition for how often I get sniped in chat rooms, when people beat me and say something before I can, alongside how impatient people seem to get with me.