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Learning to touch type is one of the best investments I made early in my career. It's never too late. The fact that you will no longer need to care about whatev
by Aissen 2y ago
Learning to touch type is one of the best investments I made early in my career. It's never too late. The fact that you will no longer need to care about whatever is printed on your keyboard is only a minor bonus.
- Aachen 2y agoIt took until reading this comment that I understood why everyone's going on about the keyboard layout when it's always only ansi or iso anyway. I care that the left shift is long because then my hands can reach things like shift+4 comfortably (this php coder needs that $ a lot, my hand at an internship actually hurt from trying to use the bad layout), but beyond the physical keys, it wouldn't even occur to me that anyone who's into Framework hacker laptops cares about the print on them! Thanks for that hint
- matsemann 2y agoIt's not just what's printed on them, really. I touch type, but a US keyboard have different shapes. For instance a longer left shift, and then go straight to Z, while we have an extra button inbetween. After jkl we have three buttons and then a thin and tall enter, but you have two and a short enter.
- Aissen 2y agoAgreed. You are talking about ANSI vs ISO layouts, and Framework already had both.
- spurgu 2y agoYeah I've had laptops with various hardware layouts and don't really care, other than I prefer a Nordic layout on Macs where the Enter key is tall rather than wide. But it's a trivial adjustment.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agohttps://monkeytype.com/ https://monkeytype.com/ is my go-to place to practice. It proved invaluable when I was first getting used to my fancy ortholinear split keyboard.