I’ve recently started trying to improve my typing speed, which has probably been held back by my somewhat unconventional typing style. Formal touch typing was never a part of my education, and while years of computer use eventually led to me being able to type without looking, I’m probably not as efficient as I could be.

Can you touch type - and with proper form? QWERTY, DVORAK or other layout?

    • starlinguk@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Same problem, I have a Cherry keyboard for the same reason. The old Thinkpads used to have proper keyboards, I don’t get why laptops all have keyboards you basically can’t type on nowadays.

  • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I taught myself to touch-type with proper form after I built myself a split keyboard with the Dvorak layout (I figured since I’d never learned to properly touch-type with QWERTY it’d be as good an opportunity as any to pick up a better optimised layout). I gotta say, it does feel pretty great being able to type something with my eyes closed, or more practically, qouting stuff from a textbook without having to look at what I’m doing on my laptop.