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The problem with RSI is that it's extremely personal. One person's wonder-working invention is another's torture device. I don't doubt that there are many user
by mechanical_fish 19y ago
The problem with RSI is that it's extremely personal. One person's wonder-working invention is another's torture device.
I don't doubt that there are many users who could benefit from a one-handed chorded keyboard -- I once met a programmer with the use of only one hand -- but many others will see no benefit, and others might have bigger RSI problems with chording than with regular keyboards.
Meanwhile, I find that the phrase "speeds approaching QWERTY" is not a very effective sales pitch. :)
- jcl 19y agoI agree entirely (hence the various qualifiers in my post). The amazing WPM cited on the Twiddler page comes from a quote from Thad Starner, who is a prominent wearable computing researcher and one of the Twiddler's leading advocates. Some of his research on actual typing speeds, here: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thad.Starner/030_research.htm http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thad.Starner/030_research.htm
- wallflower 19y ago> The problem with RSI is that it's extremely personal. As someone who manages their RSI problems, I agree. My only bit of advice on this is if you find that you can pound out code for an extended bit of time and start to feel pain/soreness and after a little while recover...STOP - that is a major warning flag that I ignored tens of times - there is a cumulative effect/straw that breaks the camel's back, such that recovery time doesn't get you back to 100% you never really recover (baseline level of aching). That is RSI