touchtyping, or "t]pcltp\[.g"
Jul. 9th, 2019 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishThis weekend's odd experience: attempting to type on Erin's laptop and having half the letters be either completely wrong or missing.
Turns out that for me, touch-typing extends to not only knowing instinctively where the letters/keys are, but to where my hands should go in relation to the sides of the keyboard. And I'm so used to PelÅrios the Macbook and its lack of 10-key pad that I didn't account for the extra keys on Erin's machine. So my right hand was half on the 10-key pad and half on the normal keys.
When I first got Taranis the previous Macbook, lo these nearly-nine years ago, I thought the lack of 10-key pad would drive me nuts. I guess I don't miss it as much as I'd expected.
(I still miss the dedicated Delete key, and still get unreasonably annoyed at macOS's insistence on labeling the Backspace key as "Delete," though.)
Turns out that for me, touch-typing extends to not only knowing instinctively where the letters/keys are, but to where my hands should go in relation to the sides of the keyboard. And I'm so used to PelÅrios the Macbook and its lack of 10-key pad that I didn't account for the extra keys on Erin's machine. So my right hand was half on the 10-key pad and half on the normal keys.
When I first got Taranis the previous Macbook, lo these nearly-nine years ago, I thought the lack of 10-key pad would drive me nuts. I guess I don't miss it as much as I'd expected.
(I still miss the dedicated Delete key, and still get unreasonably annoyed at macOS's insistence on labeling the Backspace key as "Delete," though.)