How often do you stare at the keyboard when typing?

[ecookman]

Personally I never look at it, just wondering if I'm one of the rare people who do not as well.

[DtY]

Since switching to Dorak, never. (unless I'm typing a long number, haven't gotten them down yet-- don't have a numpad)

[SNIPERDUDE]

The problem is I never was taught to properly type. Cruddy schooling I guess. Demand for school work to be done on the computer came, forcing me to figure out my own method.

I'm pretty fast regardless of how improper using a few fingers may be.

[ecookman]

SNIPERDUDE @ Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:58 pm wrote:

The problem is I never was taught to properly type. Cruddy schooling I guess. Demand for school work to be done on the computer came, forcing me to figure out my own method.

I'm pretty fast regardless of how improper using a few fingers may be.

Same goes for me I only use my first three fingers, except for my left hand, then then I use all 4 of them, probably because of guitar.... and can get around 75-80 wmp, with some spelling errors.

[Insectoid]

If I'm typing with one finger while eating or something I'll look at the keyboard, but I don't usually. Online gaming + looking at keyboard = fail.

[unoho]

unless i have to type a long number, i don't look at keyboard at all. but i agree w/ insectoid, whn i eat, i can't type w/o looking at the keyboard. my when both of my hands r free,,i cud go pretty fast.

[DanShadow]

I do rarely, but on occasion because i'm using my laptop keyboard now instead of my (recently broken) USB keyboard, so the button spacing/size is different >.>

[Insectoid]

Oh, that's right. If I'm working on someone else's laptop (as happens often due to my relative expertise) I have to look at the keyboard.

[ProgrammingFun]

Never on my USB keyboard...
If I am on my laptop, then sometimes when the language auto-changes to french...
Also when I have to type a really long number...

[SS1389]

I rarely look at it, almost never, unless when I'm typing a really long number or when I'm using French accents.

[Insectoid]

Nice thing about a mac keyboard is that accents are just alt+the most commonly used letter with that accent. For example, alt-e gives '?'*, and pressing any accent-able key will put the accent on that letter. It takes some time to get used to, but once you get used to it it's much faster than a regular keyboard (though I assume a french keyboard would be faster still).

Damn, apparently the board doesn't like accents without letters. Alt+e +some letter gives ?, ?, ?, etc. Just like alt+i gives ?, ?, etc.

[DtY]

Insectoid @ Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:46 pm wrote:

Damn, apparently the board doesn't like accents without letters. Alt+e +some letter gives ?, ?, ?, etc. Just like alt+i gives ?, ?, etc.

The board doesn't like unicode

[ProgrammingFun]

Did anyone see the keyboard for the new Google Chrome OS netbooks?
The caps lock key is now used for Google Search

[bbi5291]

DtY @ Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:30 pm wrote:

Insectoid @ Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:46 pm wrote:

Damn, apparently the board doesn't like accents without letters. Alt+e +some letter gives ?, ?, ?, etc. Just like alt+i gives ?, ?, etc.

The board doesn't like unicode

Couldn't this be fixed just by changing the encoding to UTF-8? It worked on my website.

[SS1389]

Yeah, saw it on Engadget, don't know what to expect though..