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Have you ever used that? It looks interesting.
by StavrosK 6y ago
Have you ever used that? It looks interesting.
- mcshicks 6y agoI have one I bought maybe 8 years ago. It's the wired version. There was some pretty good tutorial software for learning to type but I could never really get the Ctrl key combos to work which made emacs hard to use. But for just letters and spaces and tabs it worked surprisingly well. You can change the layout also.
- StavrosK 6y agoI would imagine that the main use case is texting or typing documents, so it's encouraging that it worked well for that.
- jedberg 6y agoThe use case I bought it for was note-taking in class. My thought was to learn how to use it on my left hand, keeping my right hand free for drawing diagrams in my notebook or anything else that was hard to type out via just text (like math formulas).
- SapporoChris 6y agoI used twiddler 2 (I think). It was cheaply made chorded keyboard. I admit I did hold down the keys rather hard while learning to use it. Soon after I'd learned the patterns the keys started breaking. I took it apart to take a look, all the keys were connected by tiny bridges of plastic. When the plastic bridges broke the keys became loose and non-functional.
- kybernetikos 6y agoI have the bluetooth version. I like it. I have learnt enough to use it reasonably well, but not well enough to use it as a daily driver. There is a significant hump to get over, and it's not easy to force yourself to practice with it. My latest problem with it has been that one of the keys has got reluctant to register presses, which makes it a lot more frustrating to use.
- jedberg 6y agoI've had one since the early 2000s. I never learned how to type on it. I tried it for an hour and it was really hard for me to learn (although I was trying to do it in my non-dominant hand). I really should try to find that thing and learn it again.