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Programmers, what is your keyboard? (i.postimg.cc)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev

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[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Until I finally complete the firmware for this mothership:...

...then I'll be on an(y) old full size keyboard - with INS and DEL and so on in their rightful places. And wireless, that's convenient.

This is my current daily driver. Before that, I wore out a couple of these beauties:

Oh, and Dvorak layout. Obviously.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, and Dvorak layout. Obviously.

I use Colemak, but to each their own!

[–] modfxomt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Whoa, colemak? Cool. I've been trying to learn it since i'm used to [fastly] hunting and pecking qwerty but it wears out my fingers. How faster do you think you are now, in comparison to qwerty?

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good question, I haven't tested my speed in a while, for me comfort is more important than speed

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I know this is an ancient comment, but I have some motivational sentiment to share:

It's been forever since I switched, but back when I was using QWERTY I had a pretty sad 40 WPM (words per minute); to be fair, I never put a conscious effort into typing fast. A friend of mine, who was very proud of her typing ability, typed up to 60-80 WPM, also on QWERTY.

Then, I decided to learn Colemak. I remember that I was taking a longish holiday, so I had a couple weeks to get comfortable before my speed mattered. In these weeks I managed memorize the layout and get around 30 WPM in bursts, but I was already much more comfortable and using proper touch-typing.

In the time after this my speed increased and increased (it really has been a while, so I can't give specific times). Eventually I remember hitting a consistent 60 WPM and being super psyched.

Then, maybe six months after starting out, I realized I could type 100 WPM. Then 120. Today, 150 (though not for longer periods of time) WPM. My speed has effectively tripled.

I don't give Colemak alone full credit for this. Part of it is that I used Colemak as an opportunity to learn the keys properly (I didn't tape over the physical keys, so I had to memorize them, and thus properly learned touch typing), and that I started putting in a conscious effort into typing fast. But learning Colemak (Dreymar's Colemak-CAWS and Extend to be specific) has certainly been one of my better decisions. I can highly recommend :P