Asklemmy

47732 readers

682 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

How do you work against muscle memory to change a physical habit? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

24 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I type on a keyboard with only my two middle fingers. This was likely more efficient for my tiny hands at five years old than methods urged by the typing CD-ROMs we had at that time. However as I grew more proportional to a standard keyboard, this early typing style has persisted. I have no idea where to even begin changing this now as it’s been deeply ingrained by decades of habit. Anybody have experience with changing a muscle memory based habit like this?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hows your backpain? You must be going way back on equipment. Everything I have had from 85 on has had a dimple or raised dash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now I'm curious about when the dimples were introduced and what was the first device to use them, I just took a look to my collection of typewriters and none of them have dimples.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I assume once key caps were molded plastic

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chatgpt says 1950s. But who knows if that is accurate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think so, unless one single brand used them and no one else for the next 40 years.

Electric IBM typewriters from the 90s with keyboards that we would recognise today as a computer keyboard still didn't have dimples.

I asked a friend with a bigger collection of typewriters to let me know if he notices the bumps on any of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Totally unsure if this is accurate, but chatgpt is 100% confident LOL. Brand/Model Approximate Introduction Year Homing Nubs on F and J Keys IBM Selectric 1961 Yes Royal Quiet Deluxe 1939 Yes Hermes 3000 1958 Yes Olivetti Lettera 22 1950 Yes Underwood Standard 1929 Yes

Couldn't find images showing these. Looks like on computers their is info about it starting in 83

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

The lettera 22 I can assure you doesn't have the bump because I have one, the same goes for any other Olivetti I have.

The most modern typewriter I can think of is the IBM wheelwriter, in the pictures I can't see any bump but I can't find pictures with high enough resolution to be sure.