Keyboard use
I've been talking about how much I loved the keyboard over the mouse (for all discrete tasks) for quite some time now, and I think it's time for me to write something about my bad habits.
As most people, I have ten fingers, but I recently realized I didn't use them in the same way when I was typing. In fact, it's quite heterogeneous… I mainly use my left hand's index, middle finger and ring finger as well as my right hand's middle finger and index to type text (which means that my right ring finger is often idle. This also means that my right hand moves a lot (too much?) and this is not efficient.
This represents only half of my fingers. Little fingers are mainly used by the modifiers ctrl> and shift, the right thumb to the space bar, the left thumb to the meta key (which is the modifier used to access all my wm's features) and the right ring finger is bounded to backspace
This means I have a non-optimized way of typing : I use 5 of my fingers to access 8 keys, and the other 5 to use almost all the rest of the keyboard… That's why I'm looking for a way to correct that. Now, the problem is that I'm so used to typing on my keyboard that I do not need any keyboard anymore, I can basically visualize the keyboard and intuitively know where I should place my fingers. That means I have some sort of virtual keyboard somewhere in my brain, and thus I won't be able to optimize my usage of an azerty keyboard.
However, I seriously start to think about switching to a dvorak layout, so that I can take good habits from the start. The only problem I can see is that I will have to loose 12 years of azerty reflex… So, any comments about switching from Azerty to Dvorak (fr) are welcome
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