Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead
by Baeocystin on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:12AM
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Fully agreed. I am very thankful that I took typewriting classes when I was younger. I do not think it is a coincidence that I also do not have trouble with keyboards being difficult to type on, unlike 90%+ of the folks I work with. Just plain putting in the hours of practice on proper form may not be a very exciting answer, but I can't think of a more effective one.
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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead
by UI_at_80x24 on Monday December 16, 2019 @08:05AM
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I agree 100% with you on this. My first year of high-school we had a typing class on an IBM Selectric keyboard. Our teacher was a wizened old secretary that for a considerable portion of her career used a non-electric typewriter.
What has always stayed with me was her guidance on posture and form. The 'piano style'* on which she insisted is almost completely contrary to modern ergonomic teachings, and yet I can say almost 40-years later; still works and is effective.
I readily admit that I'm probably lucky too in that I don't follow that guidance to the T, I do however follow the basic form of it. This anecdote simply agrees with your statement.
*: 'piano style' wrists higher then knuckles, finger-tips hovering/barely touching home-row, back straight
Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead
by Symbiote on Monday December 16, 2019 @08:23AM
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> The 'piano style'* on which she insisted is almost completely contrary to modern ergonomic teachings
What? That seems to be exactly the current advice.
http://ergonomictrends.com/proper-ergonomic-typing-posture-a...
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/ahtutorials/typingposture.html
(First two hits from a Google search.)