mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) (10/27/87)
In article <1322@husc2.UUCP> chou@husc2.UUCP (luyen chou) writes: >In article <7640@ism780c.UUCP> mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) writes: >>with each key not located adjacent of each other faster than I can type >>``asdf''. I've noticed that people around here usually use >>``foo'' and ``bar'' more for example data types than filenames. > > >The bet is on. I always use "thid" since I've found that two hands are better >than one. >--Luyen Chou >The Harvard Core Corps Right. Except in this case. I can arrange my fingers of my left hand so that it takes one motion for me to hit a-s-d-f. That beats both ``ffff'' and ``thid''. Try it, if you're skeptical. The 4-f sequence needs 4 motions to produce (also leads to a possibly confusing situation: ``Is that 8 f's or 9?''). Likewise, ``thid'' needs four contacts, although it's probably a lot quicker than ``ffff''. I can see where an experienced THID typer can approach the speed of an experienced ASDF typer, but never surpass him. Unless of course, the guy only had two fingers on his left hand, then there might be a chance. However, if you're skeptical, you can fly out here and we'll test it. Both on the same terminals (not the paper-tty types) and we'll see. Should come in the summer, though, many more sights... -MikeP {sdcrdcf|attunix|microsoft|sfmin}!ism780c!mikep ps - notice that this is crossposted to talk.bizarre and followups are directed there. It hasn't gotten wild enough to go into alt.flame, but we can keep on trying.