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(DIR) Post #ArH5ZsbHPDuBAalr7o by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:16:39Z
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I cleaned my keyboard and accidentally swapped the B and V keycaps. This has caused me to discover that for writing words I touch type as I have no problem using the board like this... but when I try to copy and paste text? I *do* look at the keys and the swap fools me every time. Experimental design!I use a 40% keyboard with three layers at home. I do not know why I bother to do this it's very annoying but the keyboard is so handsome looking...Maybe this is a sign to move on.
(DIR) Post #ArH5rXdG6T7NLp7OjY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:19:51Z
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Having numbers on a separate level is such a bad idea if you are typing math in LaTeX. Everyone who said this is "more efficient" is lying. But, again, this keyboard *is* really really really cute and good looking.
(DIR) Post #ArH5wvZEXaM523ntpY by muellerwhh@sueden.social
2025-02-19T11:20:46Z
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@futurebird Use VI?
(DIR) Post #ArH63g0emYewo9qhbk by jannem@fosstodon.org
2025-02-19T11:22:00Z
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@futurebird For *reasons* I have to always use a heavily remapped keyboard where many symbols have moved around. Then I got a HHKB with black-on-black keycaps (still remapped) as my main keyboard. By now I completely ignore what the keycap says when I press a key.Which is not great the rare times I need to use somebody else's keyboard...
(DIR) Post #ArH67xPzzzOBxUkBOq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:22:49Z
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It'd be interesting to ask people to try to draw a keyboard from memory. I think it would be easy to show that frequently expert touch typists *cannot* do this accurately. Knowing what to do with your hand to find a letter, or sequences of letters isn't the same thing as knowing where each letter is located. Much like I have many students who have memorized all of the formulas and theorems but cannot use them correctly. There is something to remember about learning in this.
(DIR) Post #ArH6FawzPxpKamohzU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:24:10Z
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When you are typing, if you touch type, do you think about individual letters at all?Or are you only actively thinking about the the words? Suddenly really curious about how this skill is even possible at all.
(DIR) Post #ArH6J4V80Psr6vRVYG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:24:50Z
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@muellerwhh Everyone will just love Calculus but in roman numerals. Is that what you're suggesting?
(DIR) Post #ArH6OLwOamzceBiOx6 by jnl@hcommons.social
2025-02-19T11:25:45Z
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@futurebird never, ever think about letters- if I did my brain would glitch
(DIR) Post #ArH6PknBgGJy0p4mB6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:25:53Z
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@Anke You'd think. But I do think there is something like a spatial memory involved in solving algebra. A sense of what can and cannot be done, like it's a board game.
(DIR) Post #ArH6VP4fLCGYONwg0u by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:27:05Z
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@jannem Ah yes. The vaunted "reasons" ...
(DIR) Post #ArH6bB5QGBaYkP3Ktc by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:28:05Z
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@futurebird I don't know if I could draw a keyboard from memory, but there have been a few times when I took all the keycaps off a keyboard and then had to put them all back in place from memory. It turns out the tricky part is the bottom row of a laptop keyboard; on many laptop keyboars there will be somehting like [ctrl] [fn] [win] [alt] [space] and sometimes these are all the same shape keycap. And on some laptops [fn] and [ctrl] are swaped. And it's worse on the right side of the spacebar.
(DIR) Post #ArH6dw28gPZEvjpd1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:28:31Z
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@cachondo Same! I always delete the whole word and just "make it again" like doing a bat swing or something. It's hard to break the action of typing a word into parts.
(DIR) Post #ArH6spytT3zoVFQ5FA by kcarruthers@infosec.exchange
2025-02-19T11:31:16Z
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@futurebird i just type and the words come out. I just know where they are. Never look at the keyboard. One time my grad trainees played a trick on me and moved all my keys. But I never noticed it. lol.
(DIR) Post #ArH6trPJePZ5DRGZfs by kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com
2025-02-19T11:31:25Z
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@futurebird You would probably want to do two experiments, one where they draw the keyboard and another where they just label all of the keys on a blank keyboard wireframe drawing (largely to correct for people who just can't draw). But yeah.
(DIR) Post #ArH6vCxuz3YoMn5sdE by muellerwhh@sueden.social
2025-02-19T11:31:42Z
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@futurebird Great idea :-D, I am sure we are on the same page ;-). I was suggesting vim as an editor, but I just realized that there are no commas, colons etc. on the keyboard. So vim would let you suffer even more. If you are into cool keyboards, I think the Daskeyboard with blank black keycaps may be made for you. Also, switching the keycaps is less impactful.
(DIR) Post #ArH6wvqraEUjrtcFzU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:32:02Z
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@Anke I used to teach at a Steiner school. They have a lot of strange ideas (some are very questionable) but one of their notions is that "mathematics lives in the limbs and fingers" (they were always saying this kind of new-age sounding stuff which I found fascinating and troubling.)But, I think there may be a drop of truth in this notion. A part of math is a lot like muscle memory, not language based, but kinetic. Beyond words. Or maybe before words.
(DIR) Post #ArH6z2Ru1dMmuPwflw by andyprice@mastodon.social
2025-02-19T11:32:14Z
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@futurebird I don't normally think about it but when it comes to the front of my mind I slow down and sometimes have to look at the keyboard.It's kind-of like those "you are now breathing manually" or "you are now aware of your tongue in your mouth" mind games.
(DIR) Post #ArH710Nsfodj5H0BRQ by mensrea@freeradical.zone
2025-02-19T11:32:31Z
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@futurebird as a dyslexic thinking about the letters is my biggest problem when typing or writing
(DIR) Post #ArH79Fqb48ElMJMpe4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:34:16Z
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@datarama I will not hesitate. Those of us with these tiny keyboards just like how cute they look. There is nothing wrong with that. It's also amusing to watch other people be horrified and flummoxed when they try to use it. It's a simple life pleasure and the small keyboard crowd just needs to come clean about it IMO.
(DIR) Post #ArH7AUjVCtJXobdkmG by Tak@glitch.taks.garden
2025-02-19T11:34:19Z
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@futurebird @Anke My old calculus teacher used to say that calculus isn't learned through the eyes and ears, it travels slowly up the arm
(DIR) Post #ArH7OHHk0C8MA6E9i4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T11:36:59Z
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@muellerwhh "Daskeyboard"*hipster sniff*I couldn't possibly consider something I didn't solider myself. I suppose something like that might be OK for a keyboard casual. (Daskeyboards are fine. I am working on being less of a snob about these kinds of things. Not doing the best job.)
(DIR) Post #ArH7PlAUNozv8FXfBA by copiesofcopies@social.coop
2025-02-19T11:37:11Z
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@futurebird @Anke math, music, and muscle are all waveforms š
(DIR) Post #ArH7g798R8Ppvghtqa by wmd@chaos.social
2025-02-19T11:40:09Z
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@futurebird Touch type yes, keyboard, no.just tested, on keyboard I think about words, not their spelling.
(DIR) Post #ArH7tQ69HlEATKefEO by muellerwhh@sueden.social
2025-02-19T11:42:35Z
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@futurebird You soldered your keyboard yourself? Really? Is there a mode d'emploi? This sounds so cool!(I am right now dreaming of 3D printing a chassis and then putting keys into it, would that be doable in finite time?)
(DIR) Post #ArH85QGUUVZWSrDQe0 by m@helvede.net
2025-02-19T11:44:44Z
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@futurebird @datarama You're not entirely wrong. I use split 36-key (and sometimes 34-key) keyboards, and I love it. Especially at work people think I must be super smart because of that. I'm not.I started my tiny keyboard journey on a Planck, and it kind of sucks compared to what I use now with layering. Right thumb trigger 1 of 3 layers for the left and vice versa, logical and more effective than the mess that is the default Planck map.
(DIR) Post #ArH89UJ1PRKY9gL0Zk by hennell@phpc.social
2025-02-19T11:45:27Z
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@futurebird I've been learning colemak and it's such a weird experience. If I have to think about a letter I've got a 50% chance of it being right. But if I can just type without thinking it's much smoother. Occasionally I've looked to see where keys are and get surprised what uses the same finger.
(DIR) Post #ArH8AfRNUoOEyjoDEe by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2025-02-19T11:45:42Z
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@futurebird @datarama It might be a finger-length thing. I can reach anywhere from the space bar to the function row on a normal keyboard without moving my wrists, but if you can't then I can imagine it being frustrating. One more row would be annoying for me an a typewriter keyboard required a lot more hand movement than a computer keyboard.For LaTeX, I have a macro in vim that's bound to F2 that takes the current token and turns it into a \begin{} and 'end{} block using that token as the name and matches some common ones (itemize, table, figure, and so on) and replaces them with a template. That makes much more of a difference to my LaTeX entry than anything else.I have a small bluetooth keyboard that has only three rows but having to type a modifier to hit escape kills my productivity in vim.
(DIR) Post #ArH8DSUC7KR7fZSP8y by Karen5Lund@mastodon.social
2025-02-19T11:46:11Z
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@futurebird As near as I can tell (because it's difficult for my mind to say what it's doing), when typing on a physical keyboard, not a virtual keyboard, I type in common units of two or three letters. For example, combinations such as "th" or "ing" are a single motion by my fingers. Frequently used short words, such as "the" or "and" are a single unit. On the other hand (pun intended), I have a friend whose last name includes the letters "vr" and I always need to think about that.
(DIR) Post #ArH8SWLe2YZ1zWdlUO by dajb@social.coop
2025-02-19T11:48:53Z
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@futurebird I've been able to touch type since I was about 12. I'm not looking at the keyboard as I type this and so don't need to think about the letters at all. The weird thing is, even if I wasn't looking at the words that are appearing on the screen as I move my fingers, because of the muscle memory, I'd know if I'd accidentally spelled something incorrectly even if I had my eyes shut. Weird, isn't it?
(DIR) Post #ArH8UkjVWpeJBUrlqK by thecrushedviolet@mstdn.games
2025-02-19T11:49:18Z
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@futurebird I never think about the letters, but I can type words very quickly and mostly accurately.Typing something like a security code, I have to look for the letters and know the general area, but there's still some minor hunting and pecking.The QWERTY keyboard on the TV/console with a remote/controller may as well be a different alphabet entirely.
(DIR) Post #ArH8fLtUDh0dKhaW6y by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2025-02-19T11:51:12Z
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@futurebird I'm at least as likely to type a wrong word as a wrong letter.
(DIR) Post #ArH8kHmIwx5I12a6Ou by davidnjoku@mastodon.world
2025-02-19T11:52:06Z
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@futurebird I touch type.I used to write fiction, but I had to do it long hand rather than typing, cos I often type faster than I think. If I tried to think where every letter is before I type it I'd get myself in such a muddle. It'd be like trying to think which foot to move each time as you climb the stairs. You're guaranteed to fall over.
(DIR) Post #ArH8p2YgxmTmGFTtdg by jannem@fosstodon.org
2025-02-19T11:53:00Z
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@futurebird Coming from a small country, but living in another where getting "my" keyboard layout ranges from expensive to impossible. So I blindly remap the widely available keyboards to my language.
(DIR) Post #ArH97TYtIwmzDrMh8a by IcooIey@mastodon.green
2025-02-19T11:56:18Z
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@futurebird @Anke A friendās mother decided to become a Steiner teacher and went to the teacherās school in Sacramento. We visited her there and got to attend a lecture on color theory. Goethe was involved and seeing beyond the visible spectrum. It was beautiful and very confusing and somewhere between brilliant and total malarkey.
(DIR) Post #ArH9D27sDtAdryNUQK by SKleefeld@mastodon.social
2025-02-19T11:57:19Z
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@futurebird Generally, I only give conscious thought to the words, unless I hit an uncommon word which might have an unusual spelling that I have to consider. I figure there must be some kind of series of muscle memories tied to typing. Certainly not one for each word but maybe at a phoneme level or something?
(DIR) Post #ArH9TiTwVpCzrqeiNU by paninid@mastodon.world
2025-02-19T12:00:19Z
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@futurebird @Anke Math isā¦transcendental?Iāll see myself out.
(DIR) Post #ArH9ru29DOFUe1BhJ2 by lePetomaneAncien@fosstodon.org
2025-02-19T12:04:40Z
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@futurebird @Anke "My pencil and I are smarter than I am."-A. Einstein
(DIR) Post #ArH9uYmEheYraS0oue by silvermoon82@wandering.shop
2025-02-19T12:05:04Z
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@futurebird I type words and phrases without thinking, but I mostly have to look to type letters. Shortcuts are iffy, some I can use by feel but others I have to look. x/c/v I'm usually good with, w and q, s, but as you get away from the left of the board I have to look more and more.
(DIR) Post #ArHAEq2KF5JouMCv0S by ppscrv@mathstodon.xyz
2025-02-19T12:08:49Z
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@futurebird It depends on the language. In English, I hear the word as I type, and I think that has a temporal element. Longer words get broken up: "sometimes" is "some" and "times". Perhaps clusters of morphemes?
(DIR) Post #ArHAQoYZZPzrnF09Hk by toddtyrtle@zirk.us
2025-02-19T12:11:00Z
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@futurebird Like others have said, it is a flow of ideas for me. Like when you go from learning a language and translating every word (ie āa is here b is thereā for the keyboard) to just having the words come once you are fluent.
(DIR) Post #ArHB8hLBlB3s9gfNh2 by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2025-02-19T12:18:56Z
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@futurebird Thinking about this paralyzes me. The next time I go to the keyboard, Iām going to forget how to do anything. I donāt know how I type, but I do think I could reproduce the QWERTY keyboard from memory with reasonable accuracy. I took one semester of typing in highschool, because that was a thing back then, but I absolutely do not do that. I may have my hands generally in the āhomeā position, but itās probably a really natural place to put them.
(DIR) Post #ArHBAjXGZRabXdHo0m by Dianora@ottawa.place
2025-02-19T12:19:20Z
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@futurebird whole words not letters!
(DIR) Post #ArHC3ebabREsB4Upyy by Pawpower@mastodon.social
2025-02-19T12:29:11Z
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@futurebird I learned to type when I was 6-- because at the time that was the only way for blind kids to submit written work their teachers could read) and I just think about the words or I don't really, I kind of mentally check out while I'm typing actually lol it's all muscle memory, I type 110wpm.
(DIR) Post #ArHCEUGDP9QrHNfFxo by Pawpower@mastodon.social
2025-02-19T12:31:11Z
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@futurebird I can absolutely do this. I teach assistive tech so I've had to make physical representations of keyboards with the letters labeled in braille for my kids, when they first learn touch typing when they're in first grade. But I am very good at mental mapping because I can't see so I must remember.
(DIR) Post #ArHD50LnL8YNrZJghs by leon_p_smith@ioc.exchange
2025-02-19T12:40:40Z
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@futurebird I pretty much don't think when I touch type.I spent a lot of time playing with computers as a child, so I got quite good at hunt-and-peck typing. Then I had a keyboarding class in junior high and I've consistently touch-typed ever since.Moving to my Kinesis Advantage 2 was a fairly painful adjustment. Honestly learning the new locations for the arrow keys was probably worst.My dream input device would probably be a lightly modified Advantage 2 with a lot of additional things around it.
(DIR) Post #ArHDa5nl7gubkKDjKS by leon_p_smith@ioc.exchange
2025-02-19T12:35:44Z
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@shapr @futurebird Shae this concept is represented fairly prominently in my "Tools of Math Construction" study guide/lit review thingy. Specifically it does recommend "The Knowledge Illusion" by Sloman and Fernbach, which specifically mentions the issue of asking people to draw bicycles.
(DIR) Post #ArHE0joaybAdNJJizI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T12:51:09Z
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@leon_p_smith @shapr I may well ask my geometry students to draw a bicycle! It is an excellent example of how it is possible to look at something all the time but never really see the geometry. And how, if you have had to think about the design of a bike, if you have taken one apart, you develop a more refined modelā I should check out this source you suggestedā but the connection between the amusement one can have asking people to draw bikes and math is exciting.
(DIR) Post #ArHEJCLncXTX5ZeOZM by caban4@mastodon.online
2025-02-19T12:54:25Z
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@futurebird @leon_p_smith @shapr I love this idea!
(DIR) Post #ArHETfU49siEL9Vf3g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T12:56:23Z
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@leon_p_smith @shapr ālookingā and āseeingā arenāt the same things. And, in light of a recent discussion about writing #alttext it is more clear than ever that having sight is just one possible path to seeing. Sighted people can easily fail to see the things we look at and weād do well to remember this.
(DIR) Post #ArHEYSTHxxYxQkQja4 by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2025-02-19T12:57:11Z
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@futurebird @leon_p_smith @shapr Oooh, there's a whole science behind drawing bicycles.Here's an interesting article: https://road.cc/content/blog/90885-science-cycology-can-you-draw-bicycleAnd here's an artist who created 3-d-images of peoples' drawings :mastolol: https://www.fastcompany.com/3059089/it-turns-out-its-almost-impossible-to-draw-a-bicycle
(DIR) Post #ArHEZypX8tD44xYpIu by forestfjord@wandering.shop
2025-02-19T12:57:24Z
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@futurebird If I'm on a keyboard whose layout I know (US EN or DK) I only think about the words, and alternate between looking at the screen and off into the middle of nowhere, and rarely get into trouble When I'm on my phone (android; swyping) I am also only thinking about the words, but generally watching the swype trace and so do not notice when it guesses wrong. Often I will notice after pressing send and then have to go back to edit - bit sometimes not even then and then it's a mess
(DIR) Post #ArHEv4J9yGVL9KTRRI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T13:01:20Z
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@leon_p_smith @shapr The photons may go in your eye holes, oh they may tickle your brain a little but, more often than weād like to admit there the process terminates. Nothing much is really āseenā at all. And there is something adaptive about this. To not disregard most of what we see would be paralyzingā but I like to be aware, at least, that this is happening. And I want to make other people aware as well.
(DIR) Post #ArHEwJk64UntJAfXcG by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2025-02-19T13:01:18Z
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@futurebird @leon_p_smith @shapr See also: the entire trajectory of learning to draw.Which is a process of unlearning what you "know" things look like & acquiring the ability to actually ā¢seeā¢
(DIR) Post #ArHF3u39TpJNwNCOZM by Beedazzled@mastodon.green
2025-02-19T13:02:55Z
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@futurebird I used to be a fairly competent touch typer and I have next to no idea where the letters are. Its akin to playing an instrument. Muscle memory
(DIR) Post #ArHFCC66GP50EMX0We by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T13:04:26Z
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@Tak @Anke Yes! Let the calculus flow through you!
(DIR) Post #ArHFK2LUP8A8IpT9zE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-19T13:05:51Z
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@IcooIey @Anke āsomewhere between brilliant and total malarkeyā this is the perfect description!
(DIR) Post #ArHGLukZiNBvHNf6sC by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2025-02-19T13:17:22Z
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@futurebird @Anke Teach The Slide Rule
(DIR) Post #ArHGkoeFXTY7asZrNI by tx_tartan@deacon.social
2025-02-19T13:21:50Z
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@futurebird Switching from QUERTY to Dvorak layout (many years ago) was an interesting experience. For about three months, it was all I could do to think about the next character, where is it in the new keyboard map, and type it. Productivity approached zero. After those three months, I was finally able to type full words again, if slowly. After six months I had caught up and surpassed my QUERTY touch typing ability. For a short time I had temporary stickies on the keys. But I no longer pay any attention to what the keys themselves have written on them. Oddly enough, I still use the QUERTY layout when typing on my phone. Apparently itās a different set of brain cells that control my thumbs. š
(DIR) Post #ArHHQUQR7Jrr2JzJaq by fifokaswiti@social.zocradio.info
2025-02-19T13:29:23Z
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@futurebird in the middle I guess? I think about common di- and tri-graphs. Like I want to type ākeyboardā so my hands go through the motions for k, ey, b, oa, rd.
(DIR) Post #ArHHZghqpITvjOWGsC by helladeboo@mastodon.social
2025-02-19T13:31:01Z
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@futurebird @leon_p_smith @shapr While teaching art I am mostly teaching people how to look and to distinguise between "thinking what they see" and just "seeing". Thinking what they see can be based on false memories or pictural images like a bycicle on a trafficboard. Some are building up from parts: two wheels, paddels etc.I try to get them see shapes, lines, light and dark without defining it in its function (f.e.handlebars).After drawing from sight reproduction from memory will be easier.
(DIR) Post #ArHPMLZisZtK3xrpKq by marick@mstdn.social
2025-02-19T14:58:16Z
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@futurebird @Anke The philosopher Mark Johnson makes much of mathematics grounding in bodily experience. For example, he points out that the metaphor of container is all through mathematics, supposedly based on how we see ourselves as containers with insides, outsides, and ā most importantly ā clear boundaries.I think the fleshed-out version of the argument is from one of his PhD students, but no longer remember who.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Johnson_(philosopher)
(DIR) Post #ArHPVgcvyjUXxap4E4 by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-02-19T14:59:52Z
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@futurebird My mistakes tell me I'm not thinking about the letters; I often choose the wrong spelling of homophones and occasionally another word with similar spelling if I'm not thinking about it.
(DIR) Post #ArHQRNyvSXTQvdcdcG by TammyGentzel@awscommunity.social
2025-02-19T15:10:23Z
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@futurebird I do not. And I know when I have mistyped. I can type as fast as I think, but I cannot do the same with pen and paper.
(DIR) Post #ArHSbsyDIcn9qGQJkW by coppercrush@beige.party
2025-02-19T15:34:40Z
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@futurebirdThe way I think I would have to do it is by fake-typing out as many words as I could until I get all the letters. I bet theres three or four letters that would really trip me up. I have aphantasia though, which adds an interesting wrinkle; the only way for me to remember is through muscle memory or literally remembering each sentence: 'the f is left of the g'. I'm starting from a literal blank slate.
(DIR) Post #ArHm6rY2XEzdXNfK5o by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-02-19T19:13:12Z
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@futurebird @leon_p_smith @shapr I wonder how much could just be handled better by the brain though. I'm far more aware of everything I'm sensing than most people and I would certainly say I disregard far far less than most seem to. This is an autism thing I'm sure and I know that for many it reaches a point it becomes overwhelming and they have to cut off that input as much as they can instead, so there is certainly a certain balance as well as differences in the brain's actual handling of said inputs, but I do think that this is proof that the human brain is at least theoretically capable of handling more than most seem to.It has advantages sometimes too to notice little things others miss. Most of the time its extraneous, but every now and then I feel redeemed.
(DIR) Post #ArHnS4nKZzc0elUsfw by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-02-19T19:28:15Z
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@futurebird I use Dvorak and something about its nature seems to be very pattern-friendly, so not only do I tend to mentally think in terms of whole words when I type, but my fingers pretty much auto-type whole syllables rather than individual letters.
(DIR) Post #ArHqvmc52fD2ol5juq by zleap@qoto.org
2025-02-19T20:05:25Z
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@futurebird @Anke We have one of those near Totnes in Devon, UK
(DIR) Post #ArIPVTAEEC8HMbFhOi by DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-02-20T02:34:37Z
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@futurebird I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout as a teenager but type on a physical QWERTY keyboard to avoid almost exactly the copy/paste scenario you found yourself in. For videogames I tend to switch back to QWERTY (because WASD movement controls etc. would be impractical on Dvorak) and trying to find QWERTY shortcuts on a physical Dvorak board would be incredibly awkward. Touch-typing, however, is no problem at all (unless I glance at the board, in which case I get hopelessly lost).
(DIR) Post #ArIfv5DZToy7tM3EyO by cammerman@mstdn.social
2025-02-20T05:38:33Z
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@futurebird I can draw a keyboard and get most letters right, and the rest to within 1 space.I usually fix typos by rewriting the whole word.When I don't, I think it's usually a rare word that I don't have muscle memory for the whole word.Fixing those typos, and typing passwords, are the only times I think about individual letters (and may have to look at them for the passwords.)
(DIR) Post #ArIlizKW9375seurlA by goesselgold@norden.social
2025-02-20T06:43:33Z
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@futurebird I once had to enter a pin on a screen (software) number pad where the numbersā positions changed after each try. I canāt touch type, but I type quickly, and I always hear myself think the numbers when I type. But this time, without the muscle memory, I thought so hard that any brain scanner within a mile would have easily captured the pin from my mind. (Not that there are that kind of brain scanners yet, but they are possible and I am afraid there will be.)
(DIR) Post #ArKOIxfbmglSZeK0Ke by maysonic@twit.social
2025-02-21T01:30:35Z
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@futurebird A couple decades ago, I chose my main system password (it was of all things, my AOL password at one time), and soon developed muscle memory for it: fingers typed away without any conscious attention. Sometime in the last few years, I seem to have lost the muscle memory, and I now have to type it out letter by letter. Strangeā¦
(DIR) Post #ArKnXo1qPW8Zrythk8 by lufthans@mastodon.social
2025-02-21T06:13:24Z
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@futurebird finger macros are a type of muscle memoryI think a word and my fingers input it, same as throwing a ball, I don't think about the individual steps needed to wind up, then releaseIn both cases I'm not terribly accurate, but baseball doesn't have backspaceI can still think of a letter and type it such as for passwords, but I can also key a word without thinking of how it's spelledFinger macros can auto-adjust for different keyboards