Developing a thing for keyboards
Something I never thought I would ever find myself doing is thinking about keyboards. After two years of consistently improving my touch typing skills, I am now seeing the necessity to make certain adjustments and improvements to suit my needs.
Touch typing is basically typing on a keyboard with all of your fingers without having to look at the keyboard. I was motivated to learn in 2022, and I have managed to grow from 10 words per minute to hit an all-time high well above 80.
I know. Two years is indeed a long time, and that sounds pretty discouraging for someone who is willing to learn and would like to make significant progress quickly enough. But it only took me a few weeks to get the hang of it and a few months to be able to type without looking.
At the end of the day, it all depends on dedication and practice. I don't think there are up to seven days that I haven't practiced in the last two years. Practice for me is usually between one and ten minutes a day, and that made it much easier for me to grow with time by doing it regularly.
Over time, I became much faster at typing. I conveniently hit 70 words per minute (WPM) when I practice, and sometimes 80, but it has never been about speed for me. It's the efficiency and productivity I get.
Without a doubt, I am way faster with ten fingers than with just two—or nine, as I never use my left thumb. And with increased speed, I am able to save time and quickly relay the words in my head to my screen. And for the fact that I don't have to look at the keyboard as I type, it reduces that mental load to find where the alphabets and all are, also allowing me to multitask.
At some point, I couldn't always use my PC whenever I wanted, and so it could be low on battery and then have to use my phone instead. But that meant sticking with my thumbs alone to type, so I bought a wireless keyboard to solve that.
It works with my PC too, though. I just have a converter that I connected the dongle to for my phone. Now it's been a year since I have been using that keyboard, and now I feel the need to change it.
It works just fine. Everything is working like brand new. A few things I am tired of dealing with now are the need to replace the batteries regularly, the fact that the fact that I never use the number pad, which makes it too long, and the fact that the fact that it doesn't have a backlight.
The lack of backlight on this keyboard gets me frustrated some nights. I do not always need to look at the keyboard when I type, but in the times that I do, it is always a struggle to look at the keyboard in the dark.
What I often need to look at my keyboard for when typing is the use of special keys and symbols, and sometimes where the 'F' and 'J' keys are to position my fingers properly. Doing that in the dark can be frustrating.
I have found the keyboard I would like to replace this current one with, as it has solutions to some of these issues and some added features. It has a USB-C charging port, which makes me like it even more. And, yes, it is paired with a cool mouse.
The catch about buying this new keyboard now, however, is that in a couple of months or years, I will desire something better again.
Anyway, when I get this keyboard, I'll do a comparison between both keyboards, particularly on my typing speed. Until then, I'll just keep doing the same old...typing.
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You took this pictures perfectly.
That is fast, and here I am still struggling with typing very fast. But I am fast on my phone.
Same here too! Find it easier to type faster on my phone than with a keyboard.
🤣🤣 this made me laugh
Yeah, you basically get better at what you spend more time on.
I wrote a whole post and unfortunately pressed close instead of comment🙂 so this might be shorter
Of course, you would continually be wanting to upgrade keyboards because I think each achievement or level comes with a realization of “ohhhh, I need this to be added to my keyboard”. I think it’s a good investment thought, you never know where this would land you.
Jeez. And you managed to leave a comment regardless... thanks
You'll see the keyboard when I get it. It looks really nice. Costs a lot more than the one I use now, though.
When Abena buying hers?
Me?
My laptop keyboard I guess
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Of course you would want a better keyboard later on Jay, there's no harm in that.
Thanks, Becky
You are welcome
Omo, your photography skills ehn, too lit, too good.
Well done.
Heh. Thank you, Amie
Probably, new keyboards with more amazing features will be released in the coming years. Having no backlight is a bummer for me, more friction and mental load.
There are actually really cool keyboards now. They're just very expensive. Having backlight is a basic necessary anyway.
This is quite fascinating, the touch typing I mean, everything becomes good with practice, getting the new keyboard to suit your needs are in order as long as you won't break the bank to go for it, then by all means go for it.
Indeed. And when it's most convenient, I'll get it. I just have to deal with the lack of backlight issue on this one for a while.
My takeaway from this post is the consistent everyday practice for at least a minute to about 10 minutes each day. It is the surest way of improving you touch-typing skills and improving it fast!