I can believe that - but if (as I suspected) "it makes no difference at all for the user", why would a left-handed user change it in the first place?
Kind Regards, John
Poll: Using an external keyboard with laptop - business use
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Kind Regards, John
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EddieM
Not really sure, maybe ones index finger is the most dexterous?
Yes, maybe - but I suppose that it would then not really be true to say that "it makes no difference at all for the user"
Kind Regards, John
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EddieM
Yes, maybe - but I suppose that it would then not really be true to say that "it makes no difference at all for the user"
Kind Regards, John
Bit of a misunderstanding, when I said it makes no difference, I meant reversing the buttons makes no functional difference to the operation of the computer, but for some left handers makes it more intuitive (maybe) . I might have the buttons of my mouse as normal, but the mouse itself is on the left side of the keyboard.
Incidentally as we know the qwerty keyboard layout is designed to slow typing down. Windows 10 supports an optimised keyboard layout designed to maximise typing speed. I've not yet met anyone dedicated/brave enough to learn to use it.
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Fair enough.
Indeed.
It's not the first time that that has been tried, but I've never come across anyone dedicated/brave enough to take the challenge. It would presumably only be remotely sensible to try if the new layout were fairly ubiquitous (which it won't, unless a lot of people 'try' - hence a vicious circle!) - since otherwise one's brain/.fingers would have to be able to be able to switch between the two, which I suspect would be pretty difficult (and might well slow down one's use of both!).
A bit like Esperanto, I suppose - I once knew (just) one person who claimed to be 'fluent' in it. In theory, a very good idea, but only if it came into very widespread use, which requires a lot of people to be the guinea pigs' prior to that!
Kind Regards, John
We might 'know' that, but it isn't true.
I believe that's correct, but it's one of those very widely-held and perpetuated myths/misconceptions.
As I understand it, it was actually designed to allow people to type faster without jamming the mechanism (primarily by avoiding frequently consecutive characters being on adjacent keys on the keyboard) and, in fact, further increasing potential typing speed by putting those 'frequently consecutive characters' far apart on the keyboard to facilitate 'alternate-hand' typing. Is that correct?
Kind Regards, John
Yes.
As it was a simple mechanical linkage, the 'frequently consecutive characters' being far apart on the keyboard meant they were far apart in the basket, so one striker bar (or whatever they are called) could be swinging forward while the previous one was swing back.
Thanks for confirming.
Indeed - and, as i said, in addition to that, by have the 'frequently consecutive characters' far apart on the keyboard this greatly increased the proportion of occasions on which consecutive characters could be typed with fingers of different hands - which people can generally do faster than typing two consecutive characters with finger(s) of the same hand.
Kind Regards, John
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