I cleaned my keyboard and accidentally swapped the B and V keycaps.
This has caused me to discover that for writing words I touch type as I have no problem using the board like this... but when I try to copy and paste text? I *do* look at the keys and the swap fools me every time.
Experimental design!
I use a 40% keyboard with three layers at home. I do not know why I bother to do this it's very annoying but the keyboard is so handsome looking...
Maybe this is a sign to move on.
Having numbers on a separate level is such a bad idea if you are typing math in LaTeX. Everyone who said this is "more efficient" is lying.
But, again, this keyboard *is* really really really cute and good looking.
It'd be interesting to ask people to try to draw a keyboard from memory. I think it would be easy to show that frequently expert touch typists *cannot* do this accurately.
Knowing what to do with your hand to find a letter, or sequences of letters isn't the same thing as knowing where each letter is located.
Much like I have many students who have memorized all of the formulas and theorems but cannot use them correctly. There is something to remember about learning in this.
When you are typing, if you touch type, do you think about individual letters at all?
Or are you only actively thinking about the the words? Suddenly really curious about how this skill is even possible at all.
@futurebird I do think in terms of letters, sort of. It's a mostly subconscious process, but I can *make* it conscious and analyze it.
Basically I break the thing I want to type into a sequence of letters (making use of my ticker tape synesthesia in the process), and then my brain presents a sort of 'movement plan' with the exact physical locations to press and movements to get there.
I can visualize that plan in my head, and essentially 'see' a keyboard with paths drawn over it, in my mind's eye (or, if I choose to, see it 'overlaid' on top of my actual vision).
Likewise, given a letter, I can determine the physical location on the keyboard in my head from memory; but I have much more difficulty with *sequentially* rattling off from memory the keys that exist on a given keyboard row.
