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>The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding. This pretty obviously wrong unless measured on very specific audience for very specific
by broken-kebab 3y ago
>The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.
This pretty obviously wrong unless measured on very specific audience for very specific tasks. You need not to be an Emacs/Vim afficionado to know that e.g. ctrl-s, ctrl-c etc. are faster vs moving mouse to an icon, or clicking out a context menu. That's why like everyone with an experience of using a desktop of more than a year uses at least a few hotkeys
- PurpleRamen 3y agoThat quote seems to be from around 1989. So the studies are 35+ years old now. And they are from Apple, which had a well optimized GUI even in their early days. It's really not that hard to see Apple-researchers having better results at their preferred tasks on their own optimized interface, at a time when everything was still quite young and unoptimized. So I would take those quote as selection biased.