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On Touch Typing Number Keys

Dale Mellor wrote:

I forced myself to touch-type QWERTY in the mid 90s, and got quite proficient after a couple of years. Sometime around 2008 I decided to switch to Dvorak, and spent about five agonizing years (really) trying to get my speed back. I'm unable to touch a QWERTY keyboard now. :(

Funnily I've never made much of an effort to touch-type the numbers, it just seems relatively easy to pick up as needed (they are all nicely arranged in order, after all). As long as you can hit the 1 key and the 0 key, the rest is intuitive linear interpolation. I type the 2 key with my ring finger, that's just what comes completely naturally.

Best wishes.

01 May 2026 18:42 UTC | #1 of 1 comment