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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by prirun on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:53PM (#29830809)
No idea how they can type that fast with those long finger nails!
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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by half-kh-hacker on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:41PM (#29831547)
I actually keep my nails pretty short (they're only about 1 or 2mm past the furthest-out part of my fingertip) for typing reasons!

My speed gets a lot worse if I let them grow out, so I like to file them down regularly (instead of clipping them occasionally) to keep them at a length I'm used to.

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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by userbinator on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:15PM (#29831151)
They increase stiffness. You hit the keys with the hard nail instead of the squishy flesh of your fingers, which reduces jitter and improves timing accuracy.

(I'm a fast typer, but not as fast as that one, also with long-ish --- around 0.050" --- fingernails.)

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