Well, yesterday I edited a Makefile under TMUX by using ed,
so typing speed isn't an issue there, ed commands save
much more time than typing fast.
Ditto in the computer. As my environment is tmux+framebuffer based, I don't care on breaking typing speed records in gtypist, I type in normal speeds, as everything else is scripted I don't care of not being fast enough.
A tool that increased my typing speed
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Re: A tool that increased my typing speed
#132It makes me happy how many other people here are also slow typists and don’t care. If you’re a programmer and consider a high WPM essential to your craft... you might be doing something wrong lol
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#133QWERTY having been designed to slow down typists is a myth:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-l...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-...
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#134Yes this will save you all the time you will later spend on making your shortcut work when it breaks or every time you get a new device.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Re: A tool that increased my typing speed
#135It makes me happy how many other people here are also slow typists and don’t care. If you’re a programmer and consider a high WPM essential to your craft... you might be doing something wrong lol
Try pair programming with someone who's faster than you and you'll realize how much you are missing for typing slowly. It's like being a carpenter with a fretsaw or a jigsaw, you can do the same work, but you won't finish at the same time.
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#136Record yourself writing, or programming, or whatever it is you do at the keyboard. You will see that it is not the speed of your typing that is the bottleneck, it is the creative process. You are not a mindless machine hacking away at the keyboard. And, if you are, then the life hack take away is to stop and think a bit before typing. Going slower often has lots of benefits.
The typing speed absolutely is a bottleneck --- the more time spent typing, the less time spent thinking. Have you ever experienced times when you lost your train of thought because you were busy writing it down? That's what faster typing will avoid. It's true that the average typing speed will be low, but the higher your burst speed, the sooner you will return to thinking after each thought that needs to be written…
Having switched to an Ergodox which slowed me down and working on a new project, this is absolutely true.
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#137The best tool I ever got for typing was a keyboard with no letters on the key caps.
Re: A tool that increased my typing speed
#138Record yourself writing, or programming, or whatever it is you do at the keyboard. You will see that it is not the speed of your typing that is the bottleneck, it is the creative process. You are not a mindless machine hacking away at the keyboard. And, if you are, then the life hack take away is to stop and think a bit before typing. Going slower often has lots of benefits.
The typing speed absolutely is a bottleneck --- the more time spent typing, the less time spent thinking. Have you ever experienced times when you lost your train of thought because you were busy writing it down? That's what faster typing will avoid. It's true that the average typing speed will be low, but the higher your burst speed, the sooner you will return to thinking after each thought that needs to be written…
That's only when you need to make an effort to think about the keys you are pressing. When you have assimiliated the keyboard layout it becomes so automatic and natural that you don't even think about it.
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#139The author proposes that we're somehow blocked from success because we can't type fast enough. Is that true? I don't agree; in fact, I'd rather be concise and communicate well than vomit more words onto the screen. Additionally, beyond Dvorak, is there a better way to increase typing speed than spending what must be hours and hours building a bespoke solution for each one of your machines? And what is the cost of the…
Not everyone’s words are equally valuable. Someone who does not vomit but actually has things worth saying, and a limited time in which to express them, would benefit from faster typing. Worst case, it’s nice to get one’s job done faster to make time for other things. You can always take your hands off the keyboard periodically if you want to write less.
I've been reading Craig Murray's blog, reporting on the Assange extradition case for a while now; he's apparently been managing on at best four hours of sleep a night for the past four weeks, spending his nights writing out his notes into posts. I think he'd benefit, although for him too, accuracy is important (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/).
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#140The best tool I ever got for typing was a keyboard with no letters on the key caps.
I recently bought a "ninja" keyboard, where the labels are on the front of the keys, not the top. Looks "badass" according to a nearby 15-year-old. While technically the keys are labeled, in practice looking at them is useless, especially in anything less than bright room lighting, so they are, for me, effectively blank.
As a reasonably fast touch typist for many years, I found that for prose it was basically no change. But. There were enough things that were a total drag that I couldn't keep using it.
There are times when the key you need to hit isn't part of a flow, and you have to hit it perfectly: passwords, Illustrator/Photoshop commands, punctuation-heavy inputs like URLs, postal addresses, etc. I'm not a programmer, and others will have other things they do.
So, I bought normal keycaps and replaced them on just the letter and number keys. Much better.