Apparently we didn't need a keyboard on the Pandora


I have used my P(shit)P to "type" up simple Lua progs, and from my experience I would much, much, much rather thumb type. Using key combos and figuring out how to do it quickly is simply frustrating... (I do have patience. I'm a juggler) It just makes more sense to have a keyboard to me?
 
the keys sticking one really jumps out at me - that's nothing to do with the letter layout at all, it's only to do with the fact that the keys aren't vertically aligned
I don't really get what you mean here. Whenever you type keys which are close together on a typewriter, the hammers would get stuck. So QWERTY layout was such that physical spacing between letters was increased. Obviously, these days this point is moot.

I never learned to touchtype but I've been typing for so long that I rarely need to look at the keyboard when I type. Whether that helps reduce or increase stress or not I don't know - my hands are a lot more mobile, so they get a lot more exercise though perhaps it's not as repetitive since the same letter gets hit with different fingers depending on where my hand is in relation to it at the time I need to hit it.
I do exactly the same as you. My hands just float freely over the keyboard and even though most of the times I will strike a key with the "official" finger, when another finger happens to be nearby I don't hesitate to strike the key with that finger instead.
 
I don't really get what you mean here. Whenever you type keys which are close together on a typewriter, the hammers would get stuck. So QWERTY layout was such that physical spacing between letters was increased. Obviously, these days this point is moot.
Ah, I see what you mean. I missed the point, there! My apologies. It was my impression that the staggering of the letters was what prevented sticking - I've not seen a typewriter since I was a little kid. :P

I do exactly the same as you. My hands just float freely over the keyboard and even though most of the times I will strike a key with the "official" finger, when another finger happens to be nearby I don't hesitate to strike the key with that finger instead.
I'm the same, also. :lol: (Self-taught, never learned to type "properly". I remember how, as a youngster, my teachers told me that there was no point in me doing the touch-typing exercises that my peers were doing, as I could type a lot faster than even the teachers could.)
 
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Out of interest, what's everyone's typing speed? According to this test my typing speed is 62wpm. The texts are pretty tricky stuff too - I got an excerpt out of Dune with lots of made-up names and arabic-style apo'strophes.
 
109wpm. I hate typing tests though. >_>


(got another one that I scored 92wpm.. score suffered greatly because the text was full of misspelled words that were marked incorrect even though they weren't.. in general, I find the less natural something is to type the slower I will type it, and I will always take a hit typing something I'm reading off of a screen as opposed to something I'm thinking)
 
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Ah, I see what you mean. I missed the point, there! My apologies. It was my impression that the staggering of the letters was what prevented sticking - I've not seen a typewriter since I was a little kid. :P
You know the best part? Dvorak was also designed for physical typewriters, so "keep the heads from crashing" is in its design spec as well, rendering that particular argument against QWERTY moot, at least comparing QWERTY with Dvorak.
 
According to this test my typing speed is 62wpm. The texts are pretty tricky stuff too - I got an excerpt out of Dune with lots of made-up names and arabic-style apo'strophes.
I got something Greek. I guess I spelled Peloponnese wrong, and all the other odd proper nouns slowed me down a little.


"Your speed was: 84wpm. You made 1 mistake"


Edit: Did another test with more normal words, from "Frenchman's Creek", and got 91 wpm.


I've thought about switching about switching to Dvorak or something, but I'd worry that my qwerty speed would be reduced, or that it would be hard to switch back and forth. And laptop keys are so fragile, I'd hate to try to actually rearrange my keyboard. I tried it once with a desktop keyboard, but the different rows were angled differently, so they didn't all line up when I rearranged it.
 
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I don't really get what you mean here. Whenever you type keys which are close together on a typewriter, the hammers would get stuck. So QWERTY layout was such that physical spacing between letters was increased. Obviously, these days this point is moot.
I've read this also but my little brother has one of those classic type writers, the one where the little arm with the letter swings really hard to hit the paper, and it still gets jammed if you type too fast. Also, touch typing didn't catch on right away which I think is for this reason. In the end I think it was pretty pointless to design the layout to slow down typing since it didn't seem to work. I think the guy never said why he designed it the way he did because I've read so many places that have different theories of QWERTY.
 
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27 pw/m - I suck a copying. From my head it some times flows a little faster. Rather interested in the book though. Off for a google and a read. Trevelyan... rings a bell.


Edit: There is a BBC News presenter called Laura Trevelyan.


The except is from Voss by Patrick White.


Not sure what the quote added all those commas.
 
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i only do around 60 w/p/m though i suck at capitalization, and punctuation like commas, periods, and most importantly apostrophe's, i blame my phone txting for this
 
hum, 40 wpm but no mistake... guess I should be glade that designing code is still slower than my writing speed otherwise I should seriously think of taking typing course to move from 4fingers to my all tens...
 
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