Comment on Any good tools for learning blind typing?
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 8 hours agoAs a Colemak user I highly encourage people to learn a different layout. The thing that convinced me to Colemak was this: www.patrick-wied.at/projects/heatmap-keyboard/
Paste some long text you have written and it will show you a heat map on different layouts to see how the typing of that text on that layout would have been. I loaded a large code I was working on and Colemak was mostly home row.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 7 hours ago
Not that it matters that much for touch typing but while I can’t switch around keys in my external keyboard I can’t change it in my laptop. Did you simply accept it that keys don’t match your layout and move on?
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
If you have to look at the keyboard you’re doing it wrong. My main board had blank keys, my laptop has the qwerty keys, I just don’t look at them
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 hours ago
I don’t have to look at it but sometimes I had to take my laptop to Desktop support for example and they wouldn’t be able to do anything with different layout. I don’t have any company laptop anymore so no longer a problem. Was just wandering.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
If a support person can’t switch keyboard layout, I have absolutely no confidence they can fix whatever’s wrong with my machine.
Plus I use a tiling window manager with custom shortcuts, my keyboard is a split with blank keys and I use a trackball. I think it’s fair to say changing the keyboard layout would be a tiny step to overcome for anyone trying to use my machine hahahshs