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Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 11, 2007 at 09:03 AM
David
>But the mouse is faster:
>http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
Mmmm, sounds like a wasted $50 million. Seriously, the web page is meaningless without some background on what they were studying, and how it was designed.
The real speed benifits from the keyboard come from not having to think about the key strokes, they just become part of the typing flow - once you have remembered them of course. The idea of it taking 2 secs to work out what key strokes you need is obvious nonsense.
Plus, was the comparison made with the almost unusable joystick/touch pad found on my Thinkpad.
The mouse has its place, and I would be lost without one available, but I will take a lot of convincing that a mouse cenred approach is overall quicker to use than a keyboard centred approach.
Graham
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 11, 2007 at 02:02 PM
Derek Cornish wrote:
The problem is that I
>didn’t get the opportunity to touch type at school, and my efforts over the years to do
>so have always been frustrated by the need to hunt and peck to earn my daily bread while
>struggling to work through Mavis Beacon’s exercises.
I often tell people that the only worthwhile thing I learned in high school was touch typing. I am ever grateful that I did!
Steve Z.
Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 11, 2007 at 08:14 PM
Derek,
>didn’t get the opportunity to touch type at school, and my efforts over the years to do
>so have always been frustrated by the need to hunt and peck to earn my daily bread while
>struggling to work through Mavis Beacon’s exercises.
I think I suffer the same problem in using Miracletype to learn, but then being so slow, that my impatience gets the better of me so instead of building up speed touch typing for real, I revert back to hunt and peck.
But I am trying again.
Graham
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 11, 2007 at 11:11 PM
Steve -
In the UK we never got the chance to learn to type (or drive) at school. I’m still suffering from the consequences as far as typing is concerned. As for my driving…
Derek
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 11, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Graham -
I took a new look at typing programs yesterday but didn’t find anything that called out to me, although I might try KAZ (http://www.kaz-type.com/). MiracleType looks good, too, but I think it may only be available for the UK English keyboard, judging from notices here and there on the website. Both programs appear to be UK-based, though. Unfortunately both also seem to be designed as “buy-before-you-try” offerings, although at least MT has a 10-day evaluation for business users.
This plain text business has taken us far and wide, eh?
Derek