Typing Heroism
I’m now two weeks into the post-qwerty period of my life. To celebrate, I subjected my laptop to the switch:
The paper clip method worked very nicely and never made me feel like I might break anything.
I feel a slight desire to proselytize. I’m not going to knock on doors with a book of mormon, but I would like to be scientific about gathering evidence to make my case.
Before the switch, I was pretty fast on qwerty:
typingtest.com – default settings, Zebras
Accuracy: 94%
Gross Speed: 58 WPM
Irrational side of…:
Accuracy: 96%
Gross Speed: 65 WPM
Then I changed keys, and my last blog post was 407 words in about an hour:
week 0:
6.8 wpm
Only 10 times slower… but I would forget the end of my sentences by the time I got there.
week 2
Accuracy: 100%
Gross Speed: 27 WPM
So now I’m up to half my original speed. This doesn’t exactly make the case, but I’m getting there.
I also made a quick Flash version of the typing lesson I’ve been working through, and would like to make a real game out of it. It’s at TypingHero.com.
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