[m3at]

Very much a side note, but:

> my feeling is that I’d still reach for it if my hands are really physically hurting, and I need to keep working. Usually once I reach the point where I’ve got blisters on my fingers I think it’s better to just take a break

I'm dumbfounded, and impressed in an unhealthy way. Do some of you regularly type so much that you develop blisters?

[DJBunnies]

Ever seen somebody type on a keyboard that learned on a typewriter?

[vanderZwan]

Every day when I look in the mirror, and I don't have this problem.

Then again, by the time I had a touch typing course at age ten using an old typewriter, I already had taken piano lessons for a couple of years. My music teacher was very strict on proper hand positioning, saying that future me would hate him if I didn't learn that right. I stopped taking piano lessons soon after, but I imagine that the skills involved with properly playing the piano transfer quite well to typing.

[absoluteunit1]

Yes - I agree. Piano skills definitely make it easier to pick up touch typing.

I learned piano earlier in my life and then learned touch typing (and shameless plug: built https://www.typequicker.com) later on in life and I definitely had a easier time than some of my peers.

I’m curious - what course did you take (might have been a while) ? I’m hoping to built features in TypeQuicker for institutional clients (schools, tutoring agencies, etc) and I’m doing research on what some schools currently use.

Many don’t have any courses at all so it’s a hard sell right now

[vanderZwan]

Ehm.. I'm afraid I don't remember, although I doubt it would be of use to you if I did :). I'm Dutch and this was in the '90s. It was a course organized by the local community center using some Dutch book made for Dutch typewriters (so I actually had to unlearn where the dedicated IJ digraph was when I switched to computers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digraph)