[UK-CONTEST] Keyboards

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

All modern K/Bs should have a ridge on F & J, touch-typists are taught to use these to locate the keys and they act as a central point for the left and right hands.

I wish I could touch type, I spend 14+ hours a day on a computer and most of that is typing.
I've never been able to learn - partly because I don't do to bad with 4 fingers and partly because I'm always egger to get on and get the job done, but mostly because its always easier in the short term to watch where my fingers are going! :-)
The main issue with not being able to nowadays is systems that drop down the matching text as you type, because I'm watching the K/B and not the screen. Also a problem with chat systems (I use a lot at work) where I'm typing away and someone else has already changed the context of what I'm about to send.

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73 de M0XDF

On 26 Jan 2011, at 07:58, Dave Sergeant wrote:

> Taught myself in my teens when I got a typewriter for a birthday 
> present (using the Teach Yourself books). It is a skill you never 
> forget, and I seldom look at the keyboard while typing, even on PC 
> ones. Not sure re-training would be any benefit, the main problem is 
> lack of real keys on many keyboards - you don't know where your fingers 
> are when there is nothing but painted legends on a flat surface...
> 
> There, typed this with far fewer typos than you did....
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC
> 
> On 26 Jan 2011 at 7:32, Christopher Soames wrote:
> 
>> Are you really touchh tpists or jjust seelf taugght which mmay 
>> ultimatttely be the probbblem.
>> All our admin assistants at work were alll  ttaught to toucch tyype and
>> havee since converrted to ppprocessors and keyyboards apprpriate to them
>> thy do not hae a problem, perhaps a bit of slf retraining may be
>> neededd. Hi Hi