I touch type...but I discovered that I almost exclusively use the left shift in my typing.
I had taking touch typing in highschool (since the only freshman computer class offered was BASIC), though in senior year I was cranking out Pascal code, so that the teacher could run a Pascal class the next semester. And, then cranking out C code so that he could run a C class the following year :) And, it was on the side as extra credit, because my timetable didn't have room for it since I had filled it with Electronics options....and I was failing English.... I got into University with marginal pass on the effective writing entrance requirement, where having to take a remedial class was waived because I going into Engineering.... The program added the requirement later on, so I took it during the summer between junior and senior year. Though after that, a classmate challenged the program change because the University Handbook says graduation requirements won't change once you are in a program. He won.... Though I almost failed touch typing in highschool....but I had learned enough to where there was a time I was a 200 wpm C programmer (a co-worker clocked me once). Which really bugged my co-workers. Especially since I prefer the loud tactile keyboards. That was life creating code at a startup. I don't think I can get anywhere near that speed now....I spent a year wearing wrist braces.... I discovered the left shift problem in a digital interfacing lab...where the stations keyboard's left shift was missing (cap and switch). It was timed lab...so we were in a rush to get things done....and my partner is a hunt and peck typer...so I mainly did coding and he did the rest (probably why I remember so little about the hardware side of that class....) At one point, I had suggested switching during that lab...but we found that I was still typing faster even with the interruptions from hitting nothing when I needed to shift. Of course, I've just revealed something dangerous about me when it comes to what kind of mixed case passwords I tend to come up with! I have passwords that can only be entered when I touch type, and touch type it quickly....because that's how I had created the password, though now that with browsers being able to save my password for me...I have discovered why....I thought my password was "Password", but the browser has revealed that I actually entered "PAssword". Of course, that's not a real example, since P A are on different sides...and that kind of error is more likely to happen when its two letter close together on the same side. Though I do type my capital A using left shift (just now I spent some time trying to figure out just how I was doing it...) Though what I found might explain why I hate the mac keyboard at work so much....being able to find home again after typing a capital 'A' is requires the right kind of feel on the key caps. ----- Original Message ----- > My similar tale involves a broken left shift key, a user who didn't > touch-type and a password with a '!' in it. (It worked for me, but > when he sat in the same seat to log in with the same password, he > couldn't get in.) > > -Luke > > On Jun 22, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Tom Limoncelli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have you heard about the keyboard that only worked when you were > > sitting down? > > > > http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html > > or > > http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VH59EeSTs7UJ:netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us > > > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
