• @gigamo@lemmy.ml
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        22 years ago

        Haha, not sure. Parents made me join touch typing classes when I was 7 or 8 and since then there’s rarely been a day where I haven’t spent multiple hours behind a keyboard/pc. Azerty layout FWIW

  • @DPUGT@lemmy.ml
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    32 years ago

    Monkeytype’s telling me I’m at 77wpm with 97% accuracy. I don’t really believe that. I might be at 45wpm.

    • @k_o_t@lemmy.ml
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      an ortholinear layout?

      edit: oh wait, “keyboard layout” apparently means the software layout, not the physical layout 🤦‍♀️

      • Dessalines
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        12 years ago

        Ya just keyboard. Did dvorak for about 3 years, got up to 50 with that, now I’m on halmak.

        • @k_o_t@lemmy.ml
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          12 years ago

          halmak

          heh, never heard about this

          do you feel that it’s actually that much more efficient (like their gh page says) than, say dvorak, or it is hard/too early to tell?

          it promises much better energy efficiency than dvorak and much better same hand usage statistics, which sounds very cool, but as very often with custom, especially new, layouts, it has very good theoretical performance, but in real life usage it turns out that there’s some previously unforeseen flaw deal breaker

          the author says they learned the layout themselves, but doesn’t say whether he knew any other layout other than qwerty…

          • Dessalines
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            do you feel that it’s actually that much more efficient (like their gh page says) than, say dvorak, or it is hard/too early to tell?

            Hard to say… I’m fairly sold on it because it uses both real world hand distance measurements, and a genetic algorithm to not only find the best keyboard layout possible, but to score existing ones. Its def more comfortable than dvorak or qwerty, but I also haven’t tried colemak-dh or some of the other ones ppl like a lot.

            The main thing I’ve learned is that while these alternate layouts don’t make you type faster, they do make things more comfortable.

  • @joojmachine@lemmy.ml
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    22 years ago

    considering I don’t know proper touch typing and have my weird typing, hitting 64wpm is really nice for me

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