On Thursdays I am a man of my word

[venta]

Spot question for the day:

Without googling, does the following phrase mean anything to anybody ?

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

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[pm215]

Er, what layout are you using? NO, IM, OM, ART are all same-hand strings. Given that one of these is the first letter pair in the string your theory doesn't hold up very long :-)

Anyway, aren't you meant to keep your spare fingers on the home keys all the time when touch typing?

[venta.livejournal.com]

QWERTY, see the ammendment to 'nearly' :)

Yes, you are supposed to keep your fingers on the home keys. I don't. Do you ?

I noticed when typing that phrase the it was much easier to do so than it usually is. That it's mostly alternate hands, thus giving you time to re-locate after each keystroke, was the best explanation I could come up with in a hurry for why.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't keep my fingers on the home keys.

I don't rest my fingers on any keys at all. They're permanently poised just above the home keys, ready to leap into action the moment I decide I want something typed.

Given that, and the fact that I look at what I'm typing and not down at the keyboard, I can only presume I have some mysterious superpower that enables me to locate the right keys.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aye, I don't rest me fingers on the keys either. I've never been sure whether the idea of keeping your fingers on the home keys was meant to be a style-point, or something to reduce strain, or increase speed, or just an aid to learning. I could see that before you were familiar with a keyboard, knowing where your fingers were at all times would be useful.

I suspect we (as children of the internet) are probably the first generation who have, en masse, learnt to type by custom and usage rather than by formal secretarial training.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Actually, I learned to type thanks to secretarial training. I have a certificate somewhere that says I can lay out letters and everything :)

But the internet honed me into the lean, mean, typing machine I am today.