On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 06:43:37PM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: > So what's the best way to become fluent with a chording keyboard? just > abandon my regular keyboard for a week and only type with the twiddler? or > is trading off back and forth better? Well, if you don't have a lot of urgent computer work to do, you can try it the hard way: just take your keyboard away and force yourself to only use the Twiddler. I could not afford this approach so I started with the DOS typing tutor program in my leisure time until I was able to type the letters, numbers, and "green" punctuation characters by heart. This took me a couple of days. The next stage was to type random text into vi while watching movies on TV (I just entered fun stuff like the dialogues I had just heard). When I felt this worked quite well, I tried to learn the remaining punctuation and operator characters needed for programming, but I found their placement to be unintuitive and inconvenient, so I designed my own mapping for these ones (all two-button combinations with the NUM thumb qualifier). Since then I can in fact use the Twiddler for programming and have already written a couple of Perl and shell scripts that way, but I am still to slow to switch over to the Twiddler for my day work. I am determined to improve this over time, and try to use the Twiddler at least half an hour every day. Good luck, Arndt -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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