[Gllug] Digit differences on PC keyboards and phones
Nix
nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Oct 5 20:09:27 UTC 2008
On 4 Oct 2008, dylan at dylan.me.uk verbalised:
> Indeed, it took me about an hour to transfer to a Russian keyboard the first
> time I needed to use one. Learning to type, I think, is not so much about
> learning where the characters are relative to the keys but learning the
> necessary moves to hit individual keys - you can then superimpose any layout
> with a little practice. I actually find it harder to go from a traditional
> flat keyboard to an "ergonomic" one than swapping from UK to RU layout.
I find the opposite true. It was easy for me to shift from a normal
keyboard to a Maltron in QWERTY mode, because only a few punctuation and
control keys moved around (e.g. onto the thumb pad): the rearrangement
of the keys in vertical arrays (rather than diagonal) caused me no
trouble at all (I was bashing away at higher than pre-switch speeds in
about a week).
But it took me *years* to learn its alternate non-QWERTY layout. Years.
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