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 Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:37 pm
Where you have your keyboard really affects your typing. I just moved my keyboard, because I got a new desk, and it's really screwing me up.
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Just sayin'.
If anyone else has moved a keyboard and had these issues, go ahead and expound about it.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:56 pm
Yeah, same thing happens to me. I actually try and keep my keyboard in around the same position as the school ones are. Makes things a lot easier.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:52 am
I have more of a problem when I switch which computers I use than I do with where the keyboard is placed. I have an iBook that I use when I am away at school. The keyboard on it is small and the keys are very close together. However, when I come home I use my parents' PC, with a keyboard that is much more spaced out. The typos I make when I first come home are ridiculous.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:26 pm
snazy-a-tastic I have more of a problem when I switch which computers I use than I do with where the keyboard is placed. I have an iBook that I use when I am away at school. The keyboard on it is small and the keys are very close together. However, when I come home I use my parents' PC, with a keyboard that is much more spaced out. The typos I make when I first come home are ridiculous. Yes, true, one time when I came home from school, all my words looked like this: " Hey, hiw ate you doimg? " Hey, how are you doing?
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:26 pm
Musomaniac Yeah, same thing happens to me. I actually try and keep my keyboard in around the same position as the school ones are. Makes things a lot easier. I can't stand the position of the school keyboards. I just lean back in a chair toward the side of the desk with my feet on the wall and the keyboard on my lap. Real easy to play video games at the same time that way.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:00 pm
My only keyboard related issues involve the style of the keyboard itself. I always seem to have a hard time with laptop keyboards. My fingers are far too chubby to be so close together. >>
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:36 pm
I hate the keyboards that have really tall keys. It messes me up, and is really loud.
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:40 pm
I used to have problems like that all the time... before I got my new PC. Now, cordless! On my lap! blaugh Comfyness is key--I need to buy one of those gel-pads for my wrists, someday.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:20 am
I have issues if I just type on a different keyboard, because the letters are spaced apart differently or not placed in the same place, so I get confused. I am a complete muscle memory typist - unless II'm trying specifically to use good positioning, I use only four fingers XD (barring shift and a few other things...
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:58 am
I've been through so many keyboards, it's not even funny. I'm a very harsh typist, so they often don't last long. The space bar has always been a problem. It seems like I just wear one out and it no longer works. As for position, ideally I'd like to have it right in front of me at about waist-level. Since I'm on a laptop, it's up more at chest level, meaning I have to raise my arms.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:05 pm
If my keyboard is at the edge of the desk, it hurts my wrist and I can't type at all! mrgreen
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:28 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:35 pm
I always place the keyboard a little to the right of me at about a 20° angle. I adapt really easily to most keyboard, but laptops irk me a bit.
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:42 pm
Have any of you ever tried using keyboards that are standardized for languages that you're not native to? I've tried using keyboards in Italy and Austria, and some of the letters are placed differently, due to the frequency of the letters in the language.
For instance, in German, the Y and the Z switch places. In both countries, the keys on the right hand side are all different. It's incredibly frustrating trying to type and screwing up regularly, and then not even being able to punctuate correctly (for instance, the Italians use a different symbol for ", so the " key is located elsewhere! And then just as you get it straight, you go back to a "standard" keyboard and have to relearn that, too!! GRR!!!
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:10 pm
As long as the keyboard isn't WAY too high, WAY too low or much too far from my reach it isn't an issue. What really affects my typing abilities is the type of keyboard. Those keyboards where half is angled to the left the other is angled to the right really messes me up. I have this keyboard at home where instead of having hard keys that clack it's a giant cushon and the keys are squishy... that really messes up the speed that i type at... i have to be able to hear that i hit the key, plus the shift button and the backspace are in WAY different areas than on the standard keyboard.
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