Well, this is, comprehensive...
I do appreciate that you knowWell, this is, comprehensive...
That profile picture is unacceptable HWood
I do appreciate that you knowWell, this is, comprehensive...
That profile picture is unacceptable HWood
TL;DR
I use my right index finger to hit my space bar
The real trick to increasing speed is ditching qwerty and using something efficient like dvorak. ^-^
I'm pretty sure the only reason Dvorak increased my speed is I had to relearn to type so I did it correctly.
This is the most impressive article I have ever seen written by TP.
My estimate of his IQ has gone up by 30%.
:p :thumb: :eek:
Right now my biggest problem with speed is looking at the keys when I type. It's this horrible habit that I'm really struggling to break. At this point I believe my only solution is to go with a blank keyset making it a worthless effort.I don't even know when I stopped looking, but sometimes I will quickly glance down just to make sure still, even though in test I only miss 1 or 2 words when I do miss. I don't type in a conventional way, but how do you type?
I do notice that when I get a comfortable flow going without glancing at the keyboard my wpm increases by an average of 10 putting me up in the high 50 low 60 range.
I just did a quick typeracer and these are my results: 47 wpm / 92.5% Second try with less glancing: 57 wpm / 94.2%
I have a lot of habits to break if I plan on raising my speed and accuracy.
There are some things in here that I had not considered and plan on incorporating them into my half-hearted efforts.
Right now my biggest problem with speed is looking at the keys when I type. It's this horrible habit that I'm really struggling to break. At this point I believe my only solution is to go with a blank keyset making it a worthless effort.blank help a lot about the looking down habbits . You'll struggle at the begginnng but it's worth it.
I do notice that when I get a comfortable flow going without glancing at the keyboard my wpm increases by an average of 10 putting me up in the high 50 low 60 range.
I just did a quick typeracer and these are my results: 47 wpm / 92.5% Second try with less glancing: 57 wpm / 94.2%
I have a lot of habits to break if I plan on raising my speed and accuracy.
There are some things in here that I had not considered and plan on incorporating them into my half-hearted efforts.
Right now my biggest problem with speed is looking at the keys when I type. It's this horrible habit that I'm really struggling to break. At this point I believe my only solution is to go with a blank keyset making it a worthless effort.I don't even know when I stopped looking, but sometimes I will quickly glance down just to make sure still, even though in test I only miss 1 or 2 words when I do miss. I don't type in a conventional way, but how do you type?
I do notice that when I get a comfortable flow going without glancing at the keyboard my wpm increases by an average of 10 putting me up in the high 50 low 60 range.
I just did a quick typeracer and these are my results: 47 wpm / 92.5% Second try with less glancing: 57 wpm / 94.2%
I have a lot of habits to break if I plan on raising my speed and accuracy.
There are some things in here that I had not considered and plan on incorporating them into my half-hearted efforts.
blank help a lot about the looking down habbits . You'll struggle at the begginnng but it's worth it.
Right now my biggest problem with speed is looking at the keys when I type. It's this horrible habit that I'm really struggling to break. At this point I believe my only solution is to go with a blank keyset making it a worthless effort.I've been thinking about doing this.
I just tested myself and am horrified that my typing speed has slowed a lot. Admittedly this layout is less than 6 months old, but still, I'm not getting my speed in Qwerty anymore.
In the end.. the keyboard's most grand form of existence is as an ethereal bridge between man and machine.. Each depression of the keys, evanescent.. Our transitory thoughts crashing into the web, carving canyons through the internet wasteland such that life may once again flourish..I'm putting that in my sig.
Don't forget.. don't have arthritis :(
Hey tp4tissue,
Thanks for the write-up and passing on knowledge. Your ethos is truly a step above that of the typical lemmings in the keyboard arms race.
Do you have any citations or articles collected/bookmarked? Is there any worthwhile literature which helped you put together the compendium? I think the old typing guides on the web are generally good, but has there been anything particularly insightful for you? I'd like to research this in more detail.
Don't forget.. don't have arthritis :(
this is another discussion hahaha..
But, eat less salt.. sleep timely.. do slow weight bearing workouts..
I was assuming that this was a thread about amphetamines.
Prince of typing!
This is.... pretty good, actually.
I have a couple things to point out, though. They're not against or for, just observations:
You should reduce the finger force a fair amount before bottom-out, like just before / after the tactile point / actuation point. Position is a derivative of velocity and velocity is a derivative of acceleration and acceleration is directly proportionate to force and mass. So you need to actually stop the force, to stop the acceleration and thus reduce the speed (the spring will help do this) before hitting the bottom out position.
I think you'll find that if you're applying the "rebound" stroke correctly you stop accelerating the finger pretty soon (before the actuation point) and let the momentum carry it through the stroke (and release the tension in the muscles so the finger is "loose"), so it's naturally slowed and rebounded by the switch mechanism. This is a good thing as it results in low shock and you're not applying force opposite to the rebound force. It also feels nice :)
The faster you type, the earlier you need to release the force, until you reach a speed where you've already stopped applying force before the tactile point. Interesting. I guess this is why switch type is largely irrelevent at really high speed. The rebound can feel different and thus you may still have a preference of a particular type, and you don't always type at such high speed, so switch type is still relevant overall, but at high speed... not so important. You don't rely on the tactility so much since you're aggressively assuming the switch will actuate. However, tactility can still help you type more accurately as it can act as a warning that a key has NOT registered if you've hit one a little too softly.
Interesting read. The one thing I don't do and I'm not sure if I could ever make the switch is right hand space. I'm on an ergodox and have space on my left hand. I've used my left thumb for space my entire life. I never ever ever use my right thumb for space, even on regular boards. I have space and enter on the left cluster and backspace and enter on the right cluster.
Instructions unclear, cut the keyboard in two.
Now typing 0WPM.
This is.... pretty good, actually.
I have a couple things to point out, though. They're not against or for, just observations:
You should reduce the finger force a fair amount before bottom-out, like just before / after the tactile point / actuation point. Position is a derivative of velocity and velocity is a derivative of acceleration and acceleration is directly proportionate to force and mass. So you need to actually stop the force, to stop the acceleration and thus reduce the speed (the spring will help do this) before hitting the bottom out position.
I think you'll find that if you're applying the "rebound" stroke correctly you stop accelerating the finger pretty soon (before the actuation point) and let the momentum carry it through the stroke (and release the tension in the muscles so the finger is "loose"), so it's naturally slowed and rebounded by the switch mechanism. This is a good thing as it results in low shock and you're not applying force opposite to the rebound force. It also feels nice :)
The faster you type, the earlier you need to release the force, until you reach a speed where you've already stopped applying force before the tactile point. Interesting. I guess this is why switch type is largely irrelevent at really high speed. The rebound can feel different and thus you may still have a preference of a particular type, and you don't always type at such high speed, so switch type is still relevant overall, but at high speed... not so important. You don't rely on the tactility so much since you're aggressively assuming the switch will actuate. However, tactility can still help you type more accurately as it can act as a warning that a key has NOT registered if you've hit one a little too softly.
Oobly.. beyond a certain speed.. you have NO SENSATION of anything around you.. The text in front of your eyes consumes your entire consciousness..
Watch the Sean Wrona Das keyboard video, notice at the end of his typing run, he doesn't know what's going on, and his hands tremble a bit as he returns to reality..
This also happens at piano performances... so I know it first hand.
Instructions unclear, cut the keyboard in two.
Now typing 0WPM.
Did you bridge the gap with LOVE? it has to be 90% cutting and 10% love..
So what finger do I use for spacebar if I use dvorak layout?
so that means I'm goin to use ergodoxSo what finger do I use for spacebar if I use dvorak layout?
technically if you count it up, it's either one, because key load is about even between left and right..
HOWEVER, in practice, I'd still say -the right- because of where the shift key is on a regular keyboard.
On the regular keyboard, because all shifting is generally done on the left, due to the right shift being too far away, the only way to make up some time would be to add things to the right.
I just notice this one YouTuber with 170+ WPM -- he doesn't use his pinkies that much in the traditional touch type way. And it seems that he's not the only fast typists doing it.Proof that Razer make the best keyboards.
What do you think?
I just notice this one YouTuber with 170+ WPM -- he doesn't use his pinkies that much in the traditional touch type way. And it seems that he's not the only fast typists doing it.
What do you think?
So what finger do I use for spacebar if I use dvorak layout?
the accuracy is ****ing atrocious though
What if I need thumb fingernails for pushing Palm Centro buttons? Those are so small you need to use fingernails too.
I always had a problem learning touch typing, but I will give it a try:)
The real trick to increasing speed is ditching qwerty and using something efficient like dvorak. ^-^
Don't go there.. please Quinn.... LOL....
sigh...
The Dvorak improvements have not been rigorously tested.. I've got my hopes set on that new guy with his new key analysis thingie in ergonomics forum..
But overall.. Pushing WPM speed is like opening the Eight-Gates, in Naruto..
Gate of Opening 開門: This is where the user develops basic muscle memory of keys.
Gate of Healing 休門: This is where the user learns adaptive pacing and fast corrections.
Gate of Life 生門: This is where the user begins to forget everything else and focus concentration on transcription and decoding the information in front of him.
Gate of Pain 傷門: this is where the user overcomes the slight mental discomfort when employing such intense focus..
Gate of Limit 杜門: this is where the user overcomes all technical limits by initiating high level techniques from advanced and advanced +
Gate of View 景門: I don't think I've achieved this myself, it is definitely beyond the 135wpm barrier... Linkbane has achieved this gate to my knowledge... if only ya'll didn't ban him... he could tell us about it.
Gate of Wonder 驚門: To my knowledge only about 10 people has achieved this.. Sean Wrona being one of them..
Gate of Death 死門: No one has died yet.. But it has been posited that 500WPM is possible when this final gate is breached... No one has done it.. if they have, they did not live to tell about it.. Some genius sacrificed himself in commitment or in err, we may never know..Show Image(http://www.clubtuzki.com/emoticons/tuzki_013.gif)
My speed before colemak was less, probably around 50-60 WPM though I never took a typing test. And I tried all sorts of membrane keyboards, from a chromebook to a lenovo laptop keyboard, but I have yet to type on a mechanical keyboard so far. I am building one though, so that might help.
Ok, so that's something, but I was wondering if there was some major thing that I am missing that will help get me to that 100 WPM mark(that is my goal for the next couple weeks or so).
About that. I noticed that I am alot faster when I am writing the text out of my brain rather than trying to replicate text off of, let's say, a typing test. Could this have something to do with the fact that you have to read the text or is it just normal? Also, I know that there isn't much to say about technique here since I can't really describe the way that my fingers move when typing, but after reading your original post, I was slightly confused by the fact that typing isn't all a string of text but rather, has a rhythm. Can you describe how you would move your fingers to a rhythm when typing?
Is there a way that you found out to combat this reading slower than you type issue or is it still in the works.
I don't think you could establish a fixed rhythm unless you're typing the same text each time.
The use of the metronome in random text would have less to do with hand timing, and more to do with pacing your reading so you don't over/undershoot the synchronization window between hand / brain coordination.
I don't think you could establish a fixed rhythm unless you're typing the same text each time.
If you reorder even a same set of words, it's a completely different rhythm because the transitions are different.
The use of the metronome in random text would have less to do with hand timing, and more to do with pacing your reading so you don't over/undershoot the synchronization window between hand / brain coordination.
Is there a way that you found out to combat this reading slower than you type issue or is it still in the works.
don't think there's anything i can do to fix that other than to read more often which i don't really do