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I think the main advantage is blind typing. No amount of muscle memory can trump the tactile feedback of raised keys and home-row notches. When you're forced to
by chaorace 6y ago
I think the main advantage is blind typing. No amount of muscle memory can trump the tactile feedback of raised keys and home-row notches. When you're forced to rely on sight, you make more errors and are limited to using just one finger at a time (because your eyes can only focus on one spot at once).
With that being said, I can blind type on my smartphone, just not with a QWERTY IME. I instead use a 4x4 grid-layout (MessagEase [1]) that's large enough to consistently hit the correct zones without any visual feedback.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagEase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagEase
- stinos 6y agoand are limited to using just one finger at a time (because your eyes can only focus on one spot at once). That isn't entirely accurate. It's not because you focus at point x, that another finger cannot be moving at x + y cm and perform the correct action there. I never learned to type blindly. Or at least not in the way this is normally done. However I do have enough muscle memory by now that I can look down at the keyboard, put a couple of fingers in what roughly looks like the right spot and then start typing away with multiple fingers, from time to time laying focus in the center of the keyboard only.
- tetris11 6y agoinstant haptic feedback, nothing better than that
- Dirlewanger 6y agoA physical keyboard is better than that. Touch keyboards are garbage. It's why the Apple Touch Bar is garbage. Physical keys don't activate if your finger slightly grazes them.