I had computer keyboards in mind when posting this, but players of the instrument are welcome to answer too :D

  • HatchetHaro@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    Yes, QWERTY at 110wpm with standard left hand and only using index and middle fingers on my right hand, on my Wooting 80HE.

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 days ago
    1. Yes
    2. HP DC7700 office desktop accessory keyboard. I had a stockpile of them but sadly I’m down to my last one :(
  • deathgrindfreak@awful.systems
    2·
    2 days ago

    Been a touch typist for a while now, but I prefer my IBM Model M as a daily driver. I have a new modern take on the IBM Model F coming in in a few weeks that I’m very stoked about. Buckling spring switches are the best keyboard types ever made.

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Yes, I touch-type, and use a kinesis advantage keyboard that makes touch typing “almost unavoidable” (as one blogger wrote). I also use the Dvorak layout, and get nearly 100 wpm without really trying (and using low-effort brain-to-keyboard data transfer is the way to go, imho).

  • P1nkman@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    Got tendonitis, so I used Kinesis Advantage for many years. Then the Glove80 came out, which I consider even better than any of the Kinesis Advantage, and I’ve had all models. And yes, I type without looking.

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    I can, until i realize that I’m doing it, then it just all goes to shit and i have to switch back to hunt and peck.

    I can ten-key like a mother fucker though, used to work at a bank doing data entry…

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I can’t even imagine not typing blind, without looking at keys.

    Fun fact: My left hand is not 10-finger-syste-positioned but WASD gamer-system positioned. Works fine anyway for blind and fast typing.

    QWERTZ. Cherry Keyboard, mechanical keys, full with numpad.

    I did look into alternative layouts like DVORAK a long time ago, but it didn’t seem worth the investment of relearning. Current works good enough. (Even as a coder where parens and braces are more cumbersome than EN layouts.)

    • domdanial@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Hilarious to me that you learned to type from gamer-position, while l learned to game from typing position.

  • noseatbelt@lemmy.ca
    6·
    3 days ago

    Yes, I love typing and do it quickly. I guess I prefer QWERTY but only because that’s the one I learned on and got good at. I hate keys that are too flat, like laptops and some office keyboards trying too hard to look streamlined.

    When I’m thinking of how to spell a word, in my mind’s eye I see it being typed out and that’s how I find the correct spelling.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      48·
      3 days ago

      Wait what? Why would you add such absurd context? What’s next? You use Dvorak but only on columnar staggered split layouts?

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          25·
          3 days ago

          It’s absurd because one does not learn Dvorak without taking effort to do so. You usually have to be already proficient before you switch to Dvorak. I’d expect you to be a touch typist in another layout before Dvorak.

          It would be different if you didn’t say “only in”

  • littleomid@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    QWERTY at about 130-140 wpm, but not 10 finger. 10 finger ortholinear about 100 wpm, and about 90 wpm on staggered. As I was trying workman, I managed to type at about 50-60 wpm.

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Yes, I can touch-type.
    I prefer colemak but abandoned it due to the prevalence of QWERTY.
    I quite like 60% boards with tactile and clicky switches.
    I’ve only used a few makes so i couldn’t say if i preferred one over another.

  • tankplanker@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    I use only 40% and 30% keyboards, thats ones without dedicated number or f key rows, and have done so for about six years now. Majority I use are standard stagger but a few are ortho or splits. Almost all of them that I like using are split space with left half as enter and the right as space.

    I can touch type, although I am not the fastest, only a bit above 80wpm. This is mostly due to me being dyslexic so spelling is challenging for me and I can get bogged down looking up words or retyping it. If I do not give a shit about spelling I can easily get well over 100wpm.

    I think the main show off skill I can do is look at a person I am talking to while typing a different conversation on the computer. Obviously I cannot do either if its complicated conversations but simple stuff is fine.