#scheidegger — Public Fediverse posts

@Truck I can mostly type without looking at my keyboard. I do like having printed keycaps, but those are mostly for typing special characters, especially when I am frequently switching keyboard layouts (Nordic vs US / Dutch).

Still haven't quite memorised the location of the ø, æ and å keys on the Nordic layout either. It usually goes okay when I'm in the middle of typing, but when I have to think about a specific character, I tend to have a look at the keys.

Positions of cursor traversal keys such as page up/down, insert, delete, end, etc also aren't in my muscle memory, mostly because they tend to differ on condensed layouts such as laptops.

Not quite sure how many fingers I actually use. Probably 7-9? It's not something I usually pay attention to. I've been trying to pay attention to it as I type this, but I think I mostly skip my left thumb and right pinky.

#TouchTyping wasn't taught in school, though they did have a an arrangement with a third party, #Scheidegger, with whom you could sign up for an after-school typist certificate training. Can't remember if this was primary school ('basisschool', probably last 2 years of it then) or the first couple of years of secondary education (VWO in my case) though.

Having grown up with the #MSX2 from the age of 4 or 5 though, I was familiar with a keyboard though. Probably wasn't till regularly typing documents for school during my #VWO years though that I developed some form of touch typing, or perhaps even a bit later when chatting a lot on #IRC (early 2000s?). Never really studied for it, so my fingers probably aren't resting on the right keys, or being used to hit the 'correct' ones (apart from F and J I guess), but it gets the job done, so, who cares?
Late-night typing without a backlit keyboard in a barely lit room probably helped a lot.

@Truck I can mostly type without looking at my keyboard. I do like having printed keycaps, but those are mostly for typing special characters, especially when I am frequently switching keyboard layouts (Nordic vs US / Dutch).

Still haven't quite memorised the location of the ø, æ and å keys on the Nordic layout either. It usually goes okay when I'm in the middle of typing, but when I have to think about a specific character, I tend to have a look at the keys.

Positions of cursor traversal keys such as page up/down, insert, delete, end, etc also aren't in my muscle memory, mostly because they tend to differ on condensed layouts such as laptops.

Not quite sure how many fingers I actually use. Probably 7-9? It's not something I usually pay attention to. I've been trying to pay attention to it as I type this, but I think I mostly skip my left thumb and right pinky.

#TouchTyping wasn't taught in school, though they did have a an arrangement with a third party, #Scheidegger, with whom you could sign up for an after-school typist certificate training. Can't remember if this was primary school ('basisschool', probably last 2 years of it then) or the first couple of years of secondary education (VWO in my case) though.

Having grown up with the #MSX2 from the age of 4 or 5 though, I was familiar with a keyboard though. Probably wasn't till regularly typing documents for school during my #VWO years though that I developed some form of touch typing, or perhaps even a bit later when chatting a lot on #IRC (early 2000s?). Never really studied for it, so my fingers probably aren't resting on the right keys, or being used to hit the 'correct' ones (apart from F and J I guess), but it gets the job done, so, who cares?
Late-night typing without a backlit keyboard in a barely lit room probably helped a lot.