I had computer keyboards in mind when posting this, but players of the instrument are welcome to answer too :D

  • HatchetHaro@pawb.social
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    7 days ago

    Yes, QWERTY at 110wpm with standard left hand and only using index and middle fingers on my right hand, on my Wooting 80HE.

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I can, until i realize that I’m doing it, then it just all goes to shit and i have to switch back to hunt and peck.

    I can ten-key like a mother fucker though, used to work at a bank doing data entry…

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      9 days ago

      Wait what? Why would you add such absurd context? What’s next? You use Dvorak but only on columnar staggered split layouts?

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          9 days ago

          It’s absurd because one does not learn Dvorak without taking effort to do so. You usually have to be already proficient before you switch to Dvorak. I’d expect you to be a touch typist in another layout before Dvorak.

          It would be different if you didn’t say “only in”

  • Kissaki@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    I can’t even imagine not typing blind, without looking at keys.

    Fun fact: My left hand is not 10-finger-syste-positioned but WASD gamer-system positioned. Works fine anyway for blind and fast typing.

    QWERTZ. Cherry Keyboard, mechanical keys, full with numpad.

    I did look into alternative layouts like DVORAK a long time ago, but it didn’t seem worth the investment of relearning. Current works good enough. (Even as a coder where parens and braces are more cumbersome than EN layouts.)

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      9 days ago

      Hilarious to me that you learned to type from gamer-position, while l learned to game from typing position.

  • noseatbelt@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Yes, I love typing and do it quickly. I guess I prefer QWERTY but only because that’s the one I learned on and got good at. I hate keys that are too flat, like laptops and some office keyboards trying too hard to look streamlined.

    When I’m thinking of how to spell a word, in my mind’s eye I see it being typed out and that’s how I find the correct spelling.

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Yes, and full sized Keychron for me. I enjoy being able to put in what ever switches and keycaps I want on a keyboard that’s infinitely better than any trashheap in waiting that any Corsair or Razer keyboard is.

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        9 days ago

        Keychron Q6 Max. with aftermarket switches of… some random type I forgot long ago. Quiet tactile switches that trigger at a slightly more shallow depth.

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          9 days ago

          Nice. Unfortunately My keychron (k10 pro I think) just sits in a corner because it’s really hard to switch back to monolith after using a split. The quality of my split isn’t even half as good as the keychron, but it feels really uncomfortable to use the keychron now

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            9 days ago

            They seem to have a few ergonomic ones these days, though still not seeing any splits. I suppose if you wanted to be crazy you could get two 60%'s and keymap them to a funky split but that’s almost certainly too weird and expensive to be worth it. lol

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              9 days ago

              Unfortunately, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole and am looking into building my own

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                9 days ago

                I feel you. I’m ‘this’ close to making my own trackball. Just uhh… as soon as I finish up some other non-computer projects first… damn time always doing the time thing.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I use a cursed variant of dvorak so looking at the keys won’t help.

    I’ll use any keyboard with a properly sized and shaped enter and backspace key. Fuck those laptops that halve the size of backspace or mangle the enter key.

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    9 days ago

    Yes, my keyboard has no markings to indicate letters save for the standard two raised small bars on f and j so I can feel for orientation as per standard keyboard fare.

    I use the QWERTY layout on a firmware flashed zsa voyager split ortholinear keyboard.

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    I can type without looking if I’m on my keyboard, but when I made a typo I take a quick look to see where I’m wrong. I still have to look it for key combination.

    Edit: but I only type with four fingers. I don’t know why.

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    I look to get my bearings before I start but then most of the time I’m looking at what I’m typing on the screen rather than down at my hands.

    Only when I keep hitting the same wrong key(s) over and over between hits of backspace, do I then, with intense frustration, look back at the keys. I think I might be expecting the key I’m trying to hit to have run off to some other part of the keyboard.

    A lot of what I type is wrongly autocompleted by muscle memory (“why” for “what” in this sentence for example, and “we-” before correcting to “wr-” for wrong, both there and here), so I’d be utterly lost without backspace.

    My action is very much not correct touch-typing (for example, the first letter of this sentence was typed with left hand on M and right hand on right Shift), but it works for me. ISO layout’s tiny left shift key probably has quite a lot to do with that.

    As for that, I still prefer ISO (UK QWERTY) as they’re far more common here. I have used ANSI (US QWERTY) in the past, which means I occasionally reach for double quote and @ in the wrong places, but that’s increasingly rare these days. (Even more rarely I’ll reach for where characters were on the Commodore 64. That usually affects parentheses more than anything, but I do so many parentheticals in online comments that I’ve all but broken that habit!).

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    In theory I should be able to touch type, but my fingertips are girthy, so I make a lot of typos. I think RedDragon made one with 1.2x keys which seems perfect for me, but they are sold out.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I use Dvorak btw

    But yeah I touch type, but I often need to look to use qwerty when I’m on someone else’s computer