On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 01:32 -0700, kwhiskers{ wrote:
What I'd really like is at least the pc105 international keyboard, but the keys arranged alphabetically. Having the letters all mixed up has taken me 30 years to get to 40 words a minute!
Take a typing class, you'll learn it much quicker than that. ;-) You can get alphabetically arranged keyboards, but you'd probably have to put up with one decorated in children's colours.
I think the days and usefulness of the old don't look while you type 10-finger typing are passé, since with computers you always have to shift your hands from the mouse to the keyboard and back again, and you're not copying from a text, but usually writing what's in your head, so it doesn't come at any set speed and there is generally a great need to back up, retype, revise, etc, etc.
I manage, not too badly, alternating from mouse to keyboard. The keys additional to a typewriter throw me, though. The F keys are too far away for touch typing, the insert, delete, home, end, page up/down keys are in different spots on different keyboards (I keep hitting print screen on some of them). And I think I'd prefer a detached numberpad. The main keyboard would be balanced that way, and I could still use a number pad for all that number crunching that's more convenient than the number row about quertyuiop.