Terminalcoffee discussion

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I wonder if touch screen keyboards change the results?

Five years from now the results may be very different. Still, it's fascinating.

I think they do. I don't write as easily on a touchscreen.

Yes, but do you use it in that way, Bun? It isn't possible to use the little QWERTY touchscreen in the same way as a traditional keyboard.

Mrs. Phil pre-ordered the iPad3. The case arrived yesterday. The iPad is supposed to show up on Friday.

She types two-fingered.

A friend of mine is doing her doctoral research on a tablet, and composing much of her dissertation with it. Two-fingered all the way. Looks odd, but she's getting fast at it.

I can type QWer-whatever on my iPad, if I want, if I set it up horizontally. I do a sort of mixture of that and the double thumb phone technique. My hands are too small for that to be really effective on the iPad.

They better not go changing the keyboards on us. I worked really hard to learn to touch type quickly, twice! Well, I learned twice, obviously I only worked hard at it the second time (or there would have been no need).