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What keeps you from holding your hands in alignment is your torso. It's physically impossible to have your hands square to the keys and yet keep the natural and
by GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
What keeps you from holding your hands in alignment is your torso. It's physically impossible to have your hands square to the keys and yet keep the natural and relaxed line from your elbow to fingertips. The only way to do it would be to squeeze your elbows together in front of your body or compensate with your fingers (curling in your little fingers and stretching out your index fingers), neither option would be comfortable or practical.
- joe_the_user 17y agoWhat requires that your hands be "square to the keys"? I'm typing now and my fingers are a angle relative to the orientation of the square keys, yet that doesn't stand in the way of my typing. Yes, my smaller fingers are curled slightly more than my index and middle finger but that's not a huge insult to my physiognomy. The human body is actually pretty flexible but moreover, since our fingers are different lengths, it's hard to say there is a "perfect" place on the keyboard for them. Of course, for true alignment, one would want to have one's hand's palm upward but that's not going to happen with current input devices so compromises of one sort or another are necessary.