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When I learned to type back in the 1990s, I used Tipp-Ex (a correction fluid, an opaque fast-drying white liquid) to cover up the keycap letters on my keyboard,
by barrkel 6y ago
When I learned to type back in the 1990s, I used Tipp-Ex (a correction fluid, an opaque fast-drying white liquid) to cover up the keycap letters on my keyboard, to force myself to move away from four-fingered typing with occasional keyboard glances.
It wasn't enough though. What pushed me over the edge though was switching to Dvorak. That forced me to learn. I can type Qwerty, just extremely slowly, but the only place I ever need to use a Qwerty keyboard these days is the touch keyboard on my phone.
- ShinyRice 6y ago> but the only place I ever need to use a Qwerty keyboard these days is the touch keyboard on my phone. Can't you just set your keyboard on your phone to Dvorak? If yours can't, I do know of a few third-party ones that can, at least on Android.
- BigJono 6y agoNot OP but I don't imagine that would be very useful. The input method is completely different, so the muscle memory is completely different. Switching from Qwerty to Dvorak on phone just means you have to re-learn touchscreen typing all over again as well. Also while Dvorak is objectively better for physical keyboards, Qwerty is objectively better for swipe touchscreen keyboards, for similar reasons to why it was better for typewriters. The more space between common character pairs, the better swipe keyboards word prediction works.
- barrkel 6y agoSure, and when I attach a bluetooth keyboard - which is about once every 5 years, at this rate - I do specify Dvorak. Dvorak, as another commenter says, isn't as big a win for screen tapping. Dvorak does tend to alternate from one side to the other, but because the most common letters are on the home row, I'd expect it to encounter a lot of ambiguity in predictive swiping.