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Wow pressing the key harder for upper case is very good. I would take that in a regular keyboard.
by britch 8y ago
Wow pressing the key harder for upper case is very good. I would take that in a regular keyboard.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI don't think I would. I can coordinate moving two fingers (shift and the character) easier than I can control the force that I hit a key with... at least I think I can. Some of that may be training, though. I also suspect that the keyboard layout is more standardized between keyboards than the force threshold would be. (And, it occurs to me that we're essentially chording with the shift key.)
- aldanor 8y agoYea that's a good one. Same with numbers and special characters. Someone needs to make a velocity-sensitive mechanical qwerty keyboard :)
- Adam13531 8y agoWhat's fun is that it's the only time when typing in all caps actually makes you feel like you're shouting! But I'm not too sure how useful it is for efficiency even after practicing so much with it; there are a lot of false positives and negatives since keypress velocity doesn't matter for regular typing. With enough data, you could figure out a specific velocity threshold for each key so that you make fewer mistakes, and then maybe it'd be more helpful.
- ordu 8y agoIf you make a responsive keyboard, which would give a different tactile sensation for CAPS and for lowercase, then it would be easier. Piano gives this kind of distinction, historically it was due to a mechanism behind "FortePiano", in a modern electrical piano it reproduced for a convenience. It can be made in a mechanical way, like a tristate button -- off, slighly-on, on.