I had computer keyboards in mind when posting this, but players of the instrument are welcome to answer too :D
Yes, QWERTY at 110wpm with standard left hand and only using index and middle fingers on my right hand, on my Wooting 80HE.
Yes and yes.
I look to get my bearings before I start but then most of the time I’m looking at what I’m typing on the screen rather than down at my hands.
Only when I keep hitting the same wrong key(s) over and over between hits of backspace, do I then, with intense frustration, look back at the keys. I think I might be expecting the key I’m trying to hit to have run off to some other part of the keyboard.
A lot of what I type is wrongly autocompleted by muscle memory (“why” for “what” in this sentence for example, and “we-” before correcting to “wr-” for wrong, both there and here), so I’d be utterly lost without backspace.
My action is very much not correct touch-typing (for example, the first letter of this sentence was typed with left hand on M and right hand on right Shift), but it works for me. ISO layout’s tiny left shift key probably has quite a lot to do with that.
As for that, I still prefer ISO (UK QWERTY) as they’re far more common here. I have used ANSI (US QWERTY) in the past, which means I occasionally reach for double quote and @ in the wrong places, but that’s increasingly rare these days. (Even more rarely I’ll reach for where characters were on the Commodore 64. That usually affects parentheses more than anything, but I do so many parentheticals in online comments that I’ve all but broken that habit!).
I love Logitech K800, which as far as I know has been discontinued :(
Now I’m in Logitech mk520 which is… Meh, it’s okay, but still hard on my fingers
I can type without looking if I’m on my keyboard, but when I made a typo I take a quick look to see where I’m wrong. I still have to look it for key combination.
Edit: but I only type with four fingers. I don’t know why.
I use a 40% unibody split keyboard. I have a Corne, but I suspect the microcontrollers going out so I need to replace those or check my soldering job. Since I switched to columnar stagger I get a little disoriented when I try to use a more “normie” keyboard lol. Still use QWERTY tho
I use blank keycaps, so looking is more to check hand placement or if I need to count my keys to search for a symbol
I may do a bit of a show and tell when I get to my desk :3c
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I can; but, while we had Mario Teaches Typing in school, I absolutely hated the cognitive effort and preferred to Hunt and Peck.
I love computers, though, so my brain eventually memorized the keyboard just from constant use; now I generally type without looking (with a pretty average 44 WpM) but primarily just use my index fingers to do so.
Is 44wpm average? I thought more like 60-80 was average, but maybe my impression is off because of being somewhat active in mechanical keyboard groups
Heh, it might; granted, I’d just done a cursory glance since I was at work, at the time, but, taking a further look, it seems that 40 WpM is average with 50s and 60s being above average.
Granted, that include people who aren’t touch typists so that might bring the numbers down.
I also tried retaking a typing test again as, the first time, I’d done one that was only a minute (again, being at work); I did another random one and got 66 WpM and another one that was 5 minutes and got 61 WpM. So I also seemed to undersell myself in that first comment, it looks like.
Yes, I love typing and do it quickly. I guess I prefer QWERTY but only because that’s the one I learned on and got good at. I hate keys that are too flat, like laptops and some office keyboards trying too hard to look streamlined.
When I’m thinking of how to spell a word, in my mind’s eye I see it being typed out and that’s how I find the correct spelling.
I can’t even imagine not typing blind, without looking at keys.
Fun fact: My left hand is not 10-finger-syste-positioned but WASD gamer-system positioned. Works fine anyway for blind and fast typing.
QWERTZ. Cherry Keyboard, mechanical keys, full with numpad.
I did look into alternative layouts like DVORAK a long time ago, but it didn’t seem worth the investment of relearning. Current works good enough. (Even as a coder where parens and braces are more cumbersome than EN layouts.)
Hilarious to me that you learned to type from gamer-position, while l learned to game from typing position.
Yes, I touch-type, and use a kinesis advantage keyboard that makes touch typing “almost unavoidable” (as one blogger wrote). I also use the Dvorak layout, and get nearly 100 wpm without really trying (and using low-effort brain-to-keyboard data transfer is the way to go, imho).
I use Dvorak btw
But yeah I touch type, but I often need to look to use qwerty when I’m on someone else’s computer
Yes. 70%. Kailh Box Navys.
- Yes
- HP DC7700 office desktop accessory keyboard. I had a stockpile of them but sadly I’m down to my last one :(
Yes, we had a computer lab in grade school that we would go to maybe once a week or once every two weeks. We learned qwerty and the teacher would cover your hands with paper so you couldn’t look. It was infuriating at the time but once I learned it, I was set for life. I don’t really think about it, it’s just like speaking a language to me. For the most part I type properly but I have gotten into a strange habit of hitting delete with my middle finger instead of my pinky finger. No clue why/when that started and I have to reach over farther but now that’s second nature as well. I recall if you got good enough you could play around on the games in Mavis Beacon!
Been a touch typist for a while now, but I prefer my IBM Model M as a daily driver. I have a new modern take on the IBM Model F coming in in a few weeks that I’m very stoked about. Buckling spring switches are the best keyboard types ever made.
