[ryanjshaw]

Not disagreeing with your points here in this context, but it's interesting to note that I learned touch typing on a typewriter in school and I know which letters I've missed when typing, and can happily copy pages of text without needing to see the screen - even to correct any errors.

[Forge36]

I wonder if that's lost with this paper's method of typing.

I learned on a Mac. The course material was copying from a book without looking at the screen, then correcting the errors. This second pass to correct mistakes is different, and it's not clear that you can be removed when taking notes without affecting learning.

[neom]

I generally don't look at a screen when I'm typing, I know how to touch type perfectly, I learned to type using mavis beacon in the 90s and you'd get a very low grade in computers if you couldn't touch type.

[setopt]

If you don’t look at either the screen or keyboard, how do you adjust for variations between keyboards?

I regularly switch between a laptop keyboard, standard external keyboard, and ergonomic (curved/split) external keyboard, including switching between ANSI/ISO keyboard layouts (my country defaults to ISO but my MacBook has ANSI). After each switch I generally need a bit of time to adjust, and type quite a bit of errors for the first half-hour or so.

Especially when I have to type special symbols like backslash and percent, which move quite a bit between keyboards.

[neom]

Oh for sure, if I'm using a keyboard I don't know, then yeah, disregard everything, I probably look at the screen and the keyboard and make a lot of mistakes. I find the mac keyboards all feel pretty much exactly the same, I use a keychron at work, but yeah, to your point, if I walked into a random best buy, I'd probably be awful on the keyboard unless it was a mac or a keychron.

Out of curiosity, why so many keyboards? I work with a dude (lawyer) who takes his keyboard everywhere with him, ha.