Re: OT: A Better Keyboard

From: *** T. Winter (***.Winter_at_cwi.nl)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:13:42 GMT

In article <1099896255.852085.194600@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> skearney@accessbee.com writes:
> *** T. Winter wrote:
> > In article <a8dc57d5.0411062312.6fc2ed65@posting.google.com>
> skearney@accessbee.com (Asetnil) writes:
...
> > > Maybe you could type a few words with etni-dfjk transposed
> > > letters. You would be one of the first in the world to do so.
> >
> > I do not think so. I do touch-type, although I use only about seven
> > fingers and my hands move quite a bit when typing. As an example, my
> > typing speed is lowered very much when I type on a split keyboard as
> > sold by Microsoft.
>
> I was just reading about a study done on the kinesis ergonomic
> keyboard that found a slower typing speed even after twenty hours
> practice. I've never used a split keyboard but always assumed that it
> would be easy to adapt to.

I would not easily adapt to it. Always when I type on such a keyboard,
regularly one of my hands tries to find a key that is on the other
half of the keyboard. For instance, when I type the letter 't', I
use my left or right hand, depending on context. In 'the', I will type
(in general) the 'th' part with my rigth hand, in 'type', I will (in
general) enter the 'ty' part with the laft hand.

> Which seven fingers do you use?

Mostly middle and index fingers, and sometimes ring finger. And one of
my thumbs.

> The shift is the big exception, since it has to be held down.

This is indeed one of the uses of my left thumb (together with the space
key). 

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