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I like the split keyboard on iPadOS - makes typing by thumb MUCH easier I tried the "split ergonomic" keyboards starting back in the 90s ... hated them (still
by warrenm 4y ago
I like the split keyboard on iPadOS - makes typing by thumb MUCH easier
I tried the "split ergonomic" keyboards starting back in the 90s ... hated them (still do)
I also remember the "chording" "BAT keyboard" [0] - which always seemed incredibly gimmicky
I've never been a touch typist
Learned to "type" via the '2-3 finger, hunt-and-peck' method ... an especially prevalent method (observationally) amongst my generation (late Gen-X, early Gen-Y - who had no typists in the family)
Yet today (30+ years on from "learned to type"), I'm a 60+ wpm typist (several fingers, quasi-site-type)
Observationally ... I see most people who "learned to type to program" as more-or-less of the hunt-and-peck [extended] family
There are days I wish I'd learn to "type properly"
Then I realize "it doesn't bloddy matter" ... and go about my day :)
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[0] https://www.infogrip.com/bat-keyboard.html https://www.infogrip.com/bat-keyboard.html
- skydhash 4y agoIt does not really matter in terms of speed and productivity. But it helps in one way. Not thinking about typing means only the problem - and the solution - is your focus. As soon as you think of something, it appears, without needing to go back and forth. This led me to learn vim and now editing text is a mental model and not an activity. I can think several steps ahead while my fingers follow.
- warrenm 4y agoI'm a quasi-kinda-sorta touch typist now ... but I definitely "do it wrong" :)