I never learned to type correctly.
If you were to watch me type, it would look like someone who learned to type with five fingers while frantically trying to type in the answer to an online trivia gaming board before anyone else was able to.
Oh, did I give myself away?
Perhaps because of this, I also hit my keyboard keys hard. Like really hard. I always feel a little like Beethoven when I type.
But I love the tactile sense of a keyboard. I love the feel of the buttons, the resistance of them as they press down, and the satisfying click (or, let’s face it, mush) of a key pressed.
Granted, I don’t like laptop keyboards these days, all of whom are trying to mimic the form-over-function of low-travel distance keys that Apple has unleashed on everything. (Seriously, who thought that putting spaces in between keys was ever a good idea for anything aside from look?)
But while I’ve been eyeing CODE keyboards with their mechanical switches recently (anyone have any thoughts on the different types of Cherry MX switches?) I really should stop bitching about this sort of thing at all.
Because I should be grateful that I have physical buttons to press in the first place.
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