On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 01:32 -0700, kwhiskers{ wrote:
> What I'd really like is at least the pc105 international keyboard, but
> the keys arranged alphabetically. Having the letters all mixed up has
> taken me 30 years to get to 40 words a minute!
Take a typing class, you'll learn it much quicker than that. ;-) You
can get alphabetically arranged keyboards, but you'd probably have to
put up with one decorated in children's colours.
> I think the days and usefulness of the old don't look while you type
> 10-finger typing are passé, since with computers you always have to
> shift your hands from the mouse to the keyboard and back again, and
> you're not copying from a text, but usually writing what's in your
> head, so it doesn't come at any set speed and there is generally a
> great need to back up, retype, revise, etc, etc.
I manage, not too badly, alternating from mouse to keyboard. The keys
additional to a typewriter throw me, though. The F keys are too far
away for touch typing, the insert, delete, home, end, page up/down keys
are in different spots on different keyboards (I keep hitting print
screen on some of them). And I think I'd prefer a detached numberpad.
The main keyboard would be balanced that way, and I could still use a
number pad for all that number crunching that's more convenient than the
number row about quertyuiop.
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