Since the keyboard is the interface we use to the computer, I've always thought touch typing should be something I should learn, but I've always been, well, lazy is the word. So, anyone recommend any good touch typing software? It's easy enough to google, but I'ld like to hear recommendations. ...
OK, I know this is kind of subjective, and I apologise for that, but hear me out. I have to admit, like most geeks, I got into computing at an early age, this means I never even considered things such as typing speed etc. Now, I was chatting to my colleagues the other day, and we all admit, while we can type reasonably fast, for the mo...
I would like to devote some of my time to improve my typing skill. Has anyone a good experience with some freeware tool ? ...
I've typed around 75wpm for the last few years but I've always wondered how people type +100wpm. I've searched but I primarily find typing tutors that teach you to type.. not teach you to type faster. So far the only tip I've come across is to learn dvorak. Are there exercises or tips to help break through the 75wpm wall? ...
Steve mentioned that even after he learned touch-typing, he still didn't know how to touch-type the number keys. That's kind of where I am now. I can kind of touch type them, but I make too many mistakes. Most of the touch typing stuff I've found on the internet completely neglects the other keys. Some charts I've found show 2 belonging ...
I've been aware of Steve Yegge's advice to swap Ctrl and Caps Lock for a while now, although I don't use Emacs. I've just tried swapping them over as an experiment and I'm finding it difficult to adjust. There are several shortcuts that are second nature to me now and I hadn't realised quite how ingrained they are in how I use the keyboa...
When I was taught keyboarding in school, much emphasis was made on keeping your fingers centered on the 'home row', with your left hand on ASDF and your right hand on JKL; However, this placement was never comfortable for me so I continued to use the tried-and-true hunt-and-peck. Years later I'm able to type much faster and without looki...
I try to keep my fingers on home row as much as possible. Typing all the parentheses makes me move away from there a fair bit. I use Emacs; the parentheses themselves are no issue, I'm comfortable with them. And I don't like modes that type them for me automatically. I've thought about remapping the square brackets to parentheses an...
How do I improve my typing skills? I still can't get the fingers correct, and the speed ...
To those who were experienced (> 70 WPM, say) typists before the switch to Dvorak -- were you faster after switching? There are a couple good SO threads on Dvorak, but they are more on how to learn or reduction in typing pain than speed before/after. I know it will take me 1-2 months to feel comfortable, but I want to know if I shoul...
It's pretty basic knowledge that as a programmer, our output is channelled through a keyboard upon which we must type. If we type slower than we think, then it's a bottleneck for our output. Steve Yegge and our beloved dictator have both blogged about this in recent months. I challenged my girlfriend to a friendly game of Typing Of The ...
I am a touch typist. I am using a regular HP 17" laptop... When using visual studio 2008, frequently my right hand leaves the home row to use the arrow keys to navigate to different lines of code in the editor. I have seen viemu, iam not a vi user and am not interested in investing time to learn viemu. It is frustrating when I am cod...
I find myself making repetitive mistakes typing keywords and sentences in my code comments. I notice its getting worse since my fingers just keep "practicing" incorrect words. Is there any solution to this? Like a typing tutor designed to help correct repetitive mistakes? ...
I'm learning vi, as I appreciate the vast possibilities of the editor, and have to use a plain-text editor for my current project. In many tutorials I have read that it is recommended to use the keys "h", "j", "k" and "l" instead of the arrow keys, for the sake of speed. However, as a touch typist, my fingers are normally in the default...
Do you know typing tutorials / learing software specifically geared at people who have been hunting and pecking (that is, typing with two fingers) for years? My impression is that most tutorials focus on teaching you where the keys are. This is absolutely useless and mindnumbingly boring for people who have already been typing for year...
Hi all, About half year ago I decided to improve my programming efficiency, so I learned touch-typing and moved to Vim. All is fine and I feel myself much better than before. However there is a question that annoys me all that time: how should I touch-type IDENTIFIERS_WRITTEN_IN_CAPS? If I will use shifts by all rules, I would have to...
Folks, Can you see any potentially breathtaking applications for these unique keyboards ? (youtube videos at the bottom) http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2010/Student_Contest.html The main crux is where can a constantly modifying input device generate higher productivity as against a normal input device? Can the keyboard's input device be ...
Hi, I type on a keyboard for more than 15 years and during that time I developed my own system. I use about 8 of my fingers 80% of the time, but I haven’t trained myself to use a proper touch-typist finger layout. E.g. I use my forefinger a lot where I could use other fingers for the keys instead and don’t move my fingers so much other ...