大日本マンガー先輩帝国
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I have always liked to start a new page.
That's off-topic. This is a serious discussion about his new one-fingered girlfriend.
That was the topic for last page.
Now let's talk about people with supernumerary fingers and their prodigious typing speed.
There has been a new edict from the TLCC, which states that a new page should come with a new, albeit somewhat related topic. Control freaks.
My dad was born with the requisite 8 fingers and dual opposable thumbs. However, like panties' new girlfriend, he was reduced to using one finger for all his typing. In America, we call that 'hunt and peck' typing, like how a chicken hunts for bugs and pecks at them with its beak.
Sometimes he would build up an amazing typing speed of 5 words per minute by using one finger on each hand.
After he retired from his engineering job for Intel, he became a University instructor for graduate business classes. He would spend incredible numbers of hours agonizing over his written responses to student papers, pecking away at a few words per minute. I couldn't sit and watch him type, it was too aggravating.
My gread-grand-aunt's nephew's son had become an experienced typewriter user. That required striking the keys with enough impetus to leave a lasting mark on the paper, so speed was only secondary to power. Unfortunately, he transferred his skills straight into computer keyboards, which also used to leave a lasting mark on them, and he could never give up his native hunt and peck technique.
His responses to student papers had always been handwritten, though. He was lucky to retire long before the puniest note had to be computerized.
As you probably know, we inherited our weird keyboard layouts from the typewriter times, when the main constraint was to keep most used keys apart from each other in order to avoid collision. Ergonomics says otherwise, though, and I had been reading about better layouts with improved comfort for marathon typing.
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