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Silver Alicorn posted:“kinesis freestyle pro/edge is just fine” crew checking in high five holy poo poo that chord setup above. wow. go on with your bad self i guess?
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CLASS 2 PERVERSION posted:ya it arrived today- it's pretty cool apart from the switches seem a bit rough and not that tactile. my plan is to literally take apart every switch over a month and clean them out. cool hobby mine had been sitting unused in my parents' basement for probably 15 years, so yeah, i also had to disassemble and clean every single switch. i also lubed the sliders and the leaf springs with silicone spray, but idk how much it actually improved things. my dad said he thought he had a second one but it seems to have disappeared - all i could find was the rubber dome successor. the macintosh iifx the aek was purchased with is also long gone, unfortunately - my earliest memories of a computer are of that machine.
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Fib posted:Combined two of my keyboards this weekend yesss, now remove the rest of the keys and finish the job!!
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rotor posted:yesss, now remove the rest of the keys and finish the job!! dont cap shame
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just checking in to say this apple extended keyboard is currently my favorite item that i own am i am stopping myself real hard from spending like a billion dollars on any more ancient alps keyboard shipped from the us
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i mean https://www.ebay.com/p/Vintage-Focus-Electronic-Fk-5001-Keyboard-Fully-Tested-Working/20020775400 200 united states dollars, heck does come with a calculator and a turbo button
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CLASS 2 PERVERSION posted:i mean https://www.ebay.com/p/Vintage-Focus-Electronic-Fk-5001-Keyboard-Fully-Tested-Working/20020775400 offer them 3.50
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Mar 28, 2019 02:18
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a dollar per key is a fair rate right?
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are kinesisses actually good and if so what is the learning curve for an alien keyboard like
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Apr 9, 2019 18:50
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took me less than a day to adapt to my freestyles
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Bloody posted:are kinesisses actually good and if so what is the learning curve for an alien keyboard like they're very good. the backspace is right under your left thumb and pgup/pgdown and home/end are suddenly useful. I find the position it keeps your hands to be just right. Took me about 2 weeks to get back to normal typing speed. I pay a penalty on regular keyboards now but not by a lot.
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advantage two is very good. took me two-three months or so, but i ripped the bandaid off and also switched to dvorak while i was at it. no regrets.
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Apr 10, 2019 06:45
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if yospos was the mcu this thread would be dr strange
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Apr 10, 2019 09:34
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Bloody posted:are kinesisses actually good and if so what is the learning curve for an alien keyboard like once you go bowls you never go back it took me several days to get used to it a key thing about the "advantage" vs the lovely "freestyle" is that it has proper keyswitches so it doesn't wear out after six months freestyle is a dumb rubber buble design
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blugu64 posted:advantage two is very good. took me two-three months or so, but i ripped the bandaid off and also switched to dvorak while i was at it. no regrets. Hell, same. But even though I'm going to be using dvorak for the rest of my life, and even though I'm glad I switched... I don't know that I'd recommend it. It's kind of marginal compared to the change of switching to the kinesis in terms of ergo.
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yeah, I always wanted to try a new layout and could never commit to it. since it was such a huge hassle anyway i just did both. odd thing is now i still can’t dvorak on a flat keyboard, or vice versa. bowls are great.
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freestyle pro and edge have cherry switches, james
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I have an advantage keyboard I bought in 1997 and it still works great.
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Salt Fish posted:Hell, same. But even though I'm going to be using dvorak for the rest of my life, and even though I'm glad I switched... I don't know that I'd recommend it. It's kind of marginal compared to the change of switching to the kinesis in terms of ergo. the truth is it doesn't really matter what keyboard layout you use the reason that dvorak-switchers encounter radically higher keyboard speeds and comfort is that they are learning to really, truly touch type for the first time the switching was the key if you have you have spent your life with hunt-and-peck on qwerty, you will never unlearn those habits on the same layout. it's just not gonna happen. i can't prove it, but every layout-switching person ever can testify. you can change from qwerty to dvorak, you can change from qwerty to colemak, you could probably change from qwerty to a literal random layout and yield a huge increase in typing speed the key is to learn to really, truly touch type for the first time i have been using dvorak for about twenty years, and i'm glad i switched: it was the only way i was gonna learn to touch type for real
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tl;dr dvorak is not intrinsically better than qwerty, but switching from qwerty to dvorak can still make your life better
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:hunt-and-peck on qwerty this is the worst thing to watch
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Apr 11, 2019 14:05
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I didn’t learn to touch type on qwerty until I played the Typing of the Dead
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anyone else have to play type to learn? or that basketball minigame in microtype?
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Apr 11, 2019 19:47
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Mavis beacon teaches typing
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Mario teaches typing
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having to type "kill vampire with stake" really fast in king's quest 2 when I was 8
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the only downside about the advantage two is when your director asks you to send that script you use over to her to try out.
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Jenny Agutter posted:Mario teaches typing i got really good at mario teaches typing
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dick traceroute posted:Mavis beacon teaches wiping
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COACHS SPORT BAR posted:having to type "kill vampire with stake" really fast in king's quest 2 when I was 8 lmao i used to play muds when i was a kid and now i type 120wpm. mega shameful.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the truth is it doesn't really matter what keyboard layout you use hmmmm.... nah It's better. Also my typing skill were loving top notch balling out of control on qwerty.
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Silver Alicorn posted:I didn’t learn to touch type on qwerty
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what does touch typing actually mean? is it just typing quickly without looking at your fingers? or do you have to stay on the home row and use the "correct" fingers for specific keys?
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I think it’s just using the key nubs to find the home row and typing from that alone, no looking. whether you stay on the home row is up to you I’d guess
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Sagebrush posted:what does touch typing actually mean? It's not looking at the legends, typing by touch instead of eyeballing
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Apr 12, 2019 03:04
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ok cool then i am a touch typist.
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Sagebrush posted:what does touch typing actually mean? college perfessor doesn't understand the concept of touch typing 
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https://zty.pe/ is cool and good imo
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is there a stopping point or end to it i just cleared like 15 levels and it just seems repetitive
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I wound up scoring slower on the tests than I actually type because they didn’t measure accurate words produced per minute but words produced per minute without any errors I make plenty of errors while typing but I know the Mac editing keys inside and out so I‘m pretty quick at correcting, none of this “backspace backspace backspace backspace” to delete a whole word poo poo we’re not using typewriters for gently caress’s sake so let us use control-T and selections and the kill/yank buffer and cut/paste and so on
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