Dunno something seems to be wrong with your hands? XD
have no issues hitting any keys with specific fingers although I am terribly bad with the number row (As I haven't practiced that much).
Sometimes I end up doing old habits paticularly when it comes to {}|\ which I tend to still end up using right shift for...
Anyway hopefully it's not a physical limitation using the entire hand definately relieves the fingers.
May be worth mentioning that I have big hands and broad shoulders.Hmm, that makes a lot of sense. At first I said: How can he hit Z with his ring finger? I realize that by turning my hands outwards a little, it is pretty simple. I do Dvorak, but I think I'll adopt this when I finally start learning to touch type properly.
This guy seems to have made similar observations: http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/standard-qwerty-finger-placement/
His finger chart:Show Image(http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Z_with_ring.png)
move your whole hand with it in order to go faster and to not fatigate your pinkie that much.That's an important point!
Somebody on this forum already said he typed like this. by shifting the bottom row by one. He said it worked great for him :P.
...you won't end up in just trying to move your pinkie will keeping the hand on the homerow for example, but move your whole hand with it in order to go faster and to not fatigate your pinkie that much.
The thing is, the home&bottom row is physically perfectly symmetrical, and so are your hands. With your right hand, using the "classical" technique, you can comfortably hit any key on the bottom row without moving the rest of your fingers from their home position. Why wouldn't you do the same thing on the left side? Why use a technique that requires you to move your whole hand?
Spent a few hours on GNU typist today
15 years ago or so I spent three months forcing me to touch-type every single keypress before I could reach the typing speed I was at before I decided to learn to touch-type (and I was already typing since 10+ years so it was quite difficult for me to switch). It's only after that period that I began to benefit from spending the time learning that (and now I'm really glad I did learn to touch-type back then).
Three months. If in a few hours you've decided you can't do it, I'd say you may need to try to persevere a bit more. It would be like trying to play piano (or guitar) and deciding after a few hours that you can't do this or that because "your fingers are too distorted" and that you'll never be able to do so :-/
But then before going further you may want to try a real ergonomic keyboard. It goes something like that:
ergo > split + matrix layout > split + staggered > staggered.
Staggered layouts do not make any sense (and this comes from a staggered keyboard collector spending 10+ hours a day typing on a (staggered) IBM Model M).
I wish I could switch to a Kinesis Advantage or some Maltron but sadly I'm way too much into buckling springs so I'm "stuck" with my Model Ms.
15 years ago or so I spent three months forcing me to touch-type every single keypress before I could reach the typing speed I was at before I decided to learn to touch-type (and I was already typing since 10+ years so it was quite difficult for me to switch). It's only after that period that I began to benefit from spending the time learning that (and now I'm really glad I did learn to touch-type back then).
Three months. If in a few hours you've decided you can't do it, I'd say you may need to try to persevere a bit more. It would be like trying to play piano (or guitar) and deciding after a few hours that you can't do this or that because "your fingers are too distorted" and that you'll never be able to do so :-/
It would be like trying to play piano (or guitar) and deciding after a few hours that you can't do this or that because "your fingers are too distorted" and that you'll never be able to do so :-/