I had computer keyboards in mind when posting this, but players of the instrument are welcome to answer too :D
I can, until i realize that I’m doing it, then it just all goes to shit and i have to switch back to hunt and peck.
I can ten-key like a mother fucker though, used to work at a bank doing data entry…
I can touch-type but only in Dvorak.
Wait what? Why would you add such absurd context? What’s next? You use Dvorak but only on columnar staggered split layouts?
Absurd? It’s literally what OP asked.
It’s absurd because one does not learn Dvorak without taking effort to do so. You usually have to be already proficient before you switch to Dvorak. I’d expect you to be a touch typist in another layout before Dvorak.
It would be different if you didn’t say “only in”
On the contrary, my repeated failure in learning to touch-type qwerty are why I learned dvorak: it was reported to be easier to use. And it is! It’s not advanced typing, it’s Easy Mode.
Faskinatin’!
Yes, I love typing and do it quickly. I guess I prefer QWERTY but only because that’s the one I learned on and got good at. I hate keys that are too flat, like laptops and some office keyboards trying too hard to look streamlined.
When I’m thinking of how to spell a word, in my mind’s eye I see it being typed out and that’s how I find the correct spelling.
Yes, my keyboard has no markings to indicate letters save for the standard two raised small bars on f and j so I can feel for orientation as per standard keyboard fare.
I use the QWERTY layout on a firmware flashed zsa voyager split ortholinear keyboard.
Yep, I’m a touch typist. QWERTY on a compact 1800 format keyboard (an old TX-CP).
Yes. I only used QWERTZ, so QWERTZ is my preferred format.
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Keychron? Which one? Don’t leave me hanging like that.
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Nice. Unfortunately My keychron (k10 pro I think) just sits in a corner because it’s really hard to switch back to monolith after using a split. The quality of my split isn’t even half as good as the keychron, but it feels really uncomfortable to use the keychron now
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Unfortunately, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole and am looking into building my own
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Well, the ploopy trackballs keep getting better
I use a cursed variant of dvorak so looking at the keys won’t help.
I’ll use any keyboard with a properly sized and shaped enter and backspace key. Fuck those laptops that halve the size of backspace or mangle the enter key.
You can replace the key caps.
I can type without looking if I’m on my keyboard, but when I made a typo I take a quick look to see where I’m wrong. I still have to look it for key combination.
Edit: but I only type with four fingers. I don’t know why.
I use Dvorak btw
But yeah I touch type, but I often need to look to use qwerty when I’m on someone else’s computer
I can; but, while we had Mario Teaches Typing in school, I absolutely hated the cognitive effort and preferred to Hunt and Peck.
I love computers, though, so my brain eventually memorized the keyboard just from constant use; now I generally type without looking (with a pretty average 44 WpM) but primarily just use my index fingers to do so.
Is 44wpm average? I thought more like 60-80 was average, but maybe my impression is off because of being somewhat active in mechanical keyboard groups
Heh, it might; granted, I’d just done a cursory glance since I was at work, at the time, but, taking a further look, it seems that 40 WpM is average with 50s and 60s being above average.
Granted, that include people who aren’t touch typists so that might bring the numbers down.
I also tried retaking a typing test again as, the first time, I’d done one that was only a minute (again, being at work); I did another random one and got 66 WpM and another one that was 5 minutes and got 61 WpM. So I also seemed to undersell myself in that first comment, it looks like.
I look to get my bearings before I start but then most of the time I’m looking at what I’m typing on the screen rather than down at my hands.
Only when I keep hitting the same wrong key(s) over and over between hits of backspace, do I then, with intense frustration, look back at the keys. I think I might be expecting the key I’m trying to hit to have run off to some other part of the keyboard.
A lot of what I type is wrongly autocompleted by muscle memory (“why” for “what” in this sentence for example, and “we-” before correcting to “wr-” for wrong, both there and here), so I’d be utterly lost without backspace.
My action is very much not correct touch-typing (for example, the first letter of this sentence was typed with left hand on M and right hand on right Shift), but it works for me. ISO layout’s tiny left shift key probably has quite a lot to do with that.
As for that, I still prefer ISO (UK QWERTY) as they’re far more common here. I have used ANSI (US QWERTY) in the past, which means I occasionally reach for double quote and @ in the wrong places, but that’s increasingly rare these days. (Even more rarely I’ll reach for where characters were on the Commodore 64. That usually affects parentheses more than anything, but I do so many parentheticals in online comments that I’ve all but broken that habit!).
Yes, I touch type on a normal US keyboard (US international layout). As i lost some feeling in my finger tips due to age, I made my own dimples on the F and J keys, and some additional ones on the 3 and 8 keys for when I can’t use the numeric keypad (which I can touch type too).
I can. Never properly learned it, but spent so much time on my computer that it became second nature I guess. Can even do it on my phone with maybe about 90% accuracy.
I like full-size mechanical keyboards with red switches. Currently using a Ducky One 3.
Yes. US Dvorak with caps lock as compose. The keyboard of the Dell work laptops I’ve had for the past few years (with some modifications) as well as the standard Logitech keyboards enable me to type without looking simply because I’m so used to them.
