Aug 30, 2010 09:50
I'm discovering an interesting phenomenon. I'm losing my ability to touch-type, despite spending the majority of my waking hours working with computers. Its not that I'm hunting and pecking, but I'm definitely making more errors more often, and I'm starting to worry that I'm going to wear out my backspace buttons. I didn't want to say anything until I measured my error rate over time, but I've definitely seen a 30% jump in my error rate in the past year.
Personally, I blame this on the fact that I use a wide variety of computers with varying keyboard layout, key size and spacing, and even configuration (do you know where your home key is anymore?) Its the easiest excuse for me, but I'm curious if my computationally inclined friends are noticing similar effects.
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