Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha...
by alpaca128 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:59AM
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> The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding
Without specifying how it was tested that's meaningless. For example I've read of a test where keyboard users were slower because they had to do a find/replace operation on a file manually, moving the cursor only with arrow keys. That's like saying using the mouse is slower after forcing mouse users to type text on a virtual keyboard.
I think in most scenarios both can be fast enough that the difference doesn't matter, provided there's proper support for both.
Without specifying how it was tested that's meaningless. For example I've read of a test where keyboard users were slower because they had to do a find/replace operation on a file manually, moving the cursor only with arrow keys. That's like saying using the mouse is slower after forcing mouse users to type text on a virtual keyboard.
I think in most scenarios both can be fast enough that the difference doesn't matter, provided there's proper support for both.