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Using the keyboard seems faster than using a mouse to move the cursor because you're thinking so hard about what to do with the keyboard that you forget the tim
by smalltalk 14y ago
Using the keyboard seems faster than using a mouse to move the cursor because you're thinking so hard about what to do with the keyboard that you forget the time it takes to get what you want accomplished, but using the keyboard is objectively, measurably slower than using the mouse for the same task; in other words, using the mouse is actually proven to be faster for cursor movement overall. You're just fooled by your subjective impression.
http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
- TallboyOne 14y agoYou've just invalidated your argument by implying you need to think 'hard' about it. I certainly don't have to think about it. The entire point is the make everything 100% muscle memory. Every time a vim vs sublime article comes out, all the failed vim users who tried for 2 hours come out of the woodwork to comfort their own shortcomings on not following through with a tool that objectively blows away a single mode editor. You can't deny it, it just cant be done. The one exception is if you're a slow typer. By typing close to 110wpm I can type /ex<cr>vi" even before your fat meat sticks reach the mouse, and I've already accomplished it, pasted it, and am moving it on while youre fighting with putting the cursor right between the e and the "
- smalltalk 14y agoThe "hard" thinking is subconscious: you don't know you're doing it and you "forget" how long it takes, which is why you perceive the keyboard as faster. Read the article. I know it's difficult to let go of subjective impressions, but the stopwatch is always right compared to our own internal sense of time.