hi

[oldtools]

Yupp! my 2 finger peckers will never win a speed race, thinking about that Dragon speech to text program, anyone tried it?

[bird]

I'm not sure why I can close my eyes, and play the piano for as long as I want to. I guess "finger placement"  on a piano was easy. It's pretty easy to "hear" if you're suddenly not getting the results you planned on hearing.  But, with typing, it's just the sound of "clicking" keys. ...  no way to know if you're hitting the right letters. I guess I need to open my eyes when I'm typing.....  that's no fun.
       I suppose it's something like having an old car, and putting it in the wrong gear.....  you can both hear and feel that you're not in the right gear. Those are things that come naturally to some persons. But, it's through hearing and feeling the wrong gears, the wrong notes, ....  heck, with my eyes closed, I know the feel of the wrench that I'm looking for. I can get a general idea of a species of wood by feeling the grain of the wood, feeling how heavy the wood is, and the smell of the wood........  none of that is visual.
     I suppose my eyes/ sight are the weakest part of me......  I've worn glasses since second grade.....  so, I don't count on sight!!!!!! 
I've got "finger placement"  when it comes to a fiddle, banjo, guitar, saxaphone, or piano. But, I guess all of those are based on sound. Well, that's enough about that.
cheers,
bird.

Cheers, Bird.

Never had to "hunt & peck".  I was one of the first generations that had the luxury of being taught at a young age.  I can remember doing my finger experiences daily for the teacher.   Playing piano all my life didn't hurt - it had already taught me hand placement, stretching, and finger control.

I went to a local trade school upon my return home just two years ago for a welding class.  They made me take this entrance exam, even given my prior education.  Part of it was a typing test....speed and accuracy.  This old man blew a few folks away with 137 words a minute at 100%.  It all still comes so very natural for me.  It's like walking at this point. 

Come to think about it - wasn't there typing classes in school even before computers come along?

[rusty]

The order of keys on a piano also is sensible, you go left, the notes go down, you go right, the notes go up, all your brain needs to work on is 'how far', and 'how many'.

The keys on a computer keyboard have no such convenient ordering. In fact, the layout of the keyboard was intentionally made confusing to slow you down. The keyboard was invented before the computer, for mechanical typesetting machines, if you went too fast, the machine would jam up, so they keys were arranged so that letters that you normally type after each other in common words, are in totally different places on the keyboard, to force you to type slower.....

and now we are stuck with this stupid design.....