While fiddling with it and several other keyboards in my reserve PC part stockpile as well using the native keyboard of the PC, I suddenly realized that keyboards with the keys farther apart seemed easier for me to type something recognizable English, not Slobbovian. Has anyone else had this experience?
Monday, August 11, 2025
Keyboards
Ever since the stroke in 2014, my typing skills have largely collapsed. I often now find myself hitting two keys at a time. So sdwordfishj. I was debugging a problem with my wife's PC which suddenly had many keys either not working or producing unexpected results. The lower right Fn key was jammed down. My recollection from long ago is that keyboards often combine signals from a matrix of switches. The jammed Fn key largely overrode the Backspace. Popping it back up solved the problem
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Many keyboards - notebooks are especially bad - have the keys pushed together. I spend a little extra money and get a decent keyboard with actual mechanical switches. Though My typing ability isn't what it was 10 years ago... slower and more mistakes than ever.
ReplyDeleteCurrently I am using a Razer Blackwidow V4. The prior version (that I had) set the keys down in an indentation that collected dust, and anything like hairs. Made it difficult to clean. Current version eliminated that and keys stand up so I can clean the keyboard with compressed air. It isn't perfect, but it was the best I could find on short notice when the last one I had, stopped working.
It is not quite an old Selectric keyboard, but it is close.
Back in the early (2nd generation?) days of PCs, my go-to keyboard was a Keytronic 5150 - the same size and feel as a Selectric keyboard, and sufficiently hefty to use as a defensive shield or offensive weapon. Alas, people accepted increasingly poor keyboards since then.
DeleteI've noticed that larger keyboards are easier - I presume that they have larger margins of error
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