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> and I also can type fine without looking at the keyboard. You are touch typing. You're just not home-row touch-typing. I don't do it that way either, devel
by Izkata 1y ago
> and I also can type fine without looking at the keyboard.
You are touch typing. You're just not home-row touch-typing.
I don't do it that way either, developed my own style playing multiplayer StarCraft in the late 90s/early 2000s. Home row has always felt awkward, I have small hands and have to twist my wrists to reach keys when trying it. Instead my hands mostly hover with fingertips constantly in contact, and I'm using my elbows and shoulders for coarse movements across the keyboard. I have occasionally gotten comments about how weird it looks, from people who only know home-row touch-typing.
It's just that home-row is usually the only thing taught so most people think it's the only style of touch typing.
- kstrauser 1y agoSame for me. Huh, I'd never corrolated that with hand size, but that's plausible. For me, I took piano lessons long before I ever touched a typewriter or computer keyboard. With piano, you have to move your entire hand to get to where the keys physically are. I guess it never occurred to me to keep my hands in one place on a computer keyboard.