It's simple: get a fingernail or a flathead screwdriver and then pry it out. Then switch them and put them back in, switched.

Here's my project: Try and keep them on for a month, and see what happens.

So far, nothing much has really occured. I was always learned to type with all my fingers without ever looking at the keyboard, so usually this is not a problem.
After all, these days the school curriculum is pounding kinds with typing lessons as soon as kindergarden, and most kids these days have the system ingrained in their head by third grade, especially with the "type without looking" thing being enforced as soon as second or even first grade. Needless to say, it was almost natural for me to type without looking at this keyboard, and honestly, it did not affect me much. Yet.
But I have only used this for one day, and the implementations are still hard to determine after examining only 1/30th of the data that is factoring in the analytical summarization.

But while I myself may not experience this problem, many older may be faced with a delimna, or even peers who are "computer illiterate", or peers who stubbornly choose to stay with the "chopstick" 2-finger typing, with the occasional pinky for shift. I must add that when I tried this for myself, it was torture! It took all of my willpower to stay with only two fingers. And plus, I had to stare at the keyboard. Which kind of shows the weaknesses of this, becuase if you switched your chopstick friend's m and n, then he would be utterly confused, and it would drive him insane. I guess that this would be a good prank, becuase unless he uses fingerprint, dna, or chromotographical analysis, there is no way to tell who did it. And he would not know how to fix it, unless he requested advice or assistance from a superior help. But chances are that if he is typing chopstick style, then there is nobody computer-literate in his house to correct him. I find that the odds of someone typing with less than four fingers in a house where there is an adult that is fairly skilled with computers to be very slim, because even if that person is chopsticking, then an annoyance would be cast upon the superiors, who would ingrain atleast another finger into his repetoir. I think I spelled that wrong, but I am on a roll and I do not wish to consult a dictionary at this point. I wonder what would happen if someone who was writing a dictionary started chopsticking? And then what if someone messed up their keyboard as a prank?

Some are hampered by this experiment because it is so hard to set up. I have an advantage. Because I am using a laptop, it is considerably easier to take off the keys, as they are flat and can easily snap on and off with little or no force at all. However, there are two disadvantages. The first is the obvious one - laptop key bottoms are set up in a puzzle-like way, and they take more determination to snap on, because you constantly miss fitting the right points to corresponding location, ergo loosing the place of the keys. The second disadvantage is slightly more complicated: Using the NUM pad to type special characters such as æ, é and û require shifting the U, I, O, J, K, L, and M keys. When you are typing these in a laptop, you rarely do so by memory and are forced to "chopstick", so to say, by staring at the keyboard. And because M is an essential key to the laptop numpadding, you constantly press the wrong button. This has gotten annoying surprisingly quite a few times in my records today. However, an obvious pro-side is that many people tend to share a laptop more than a PC.

In theory, people only memorize the locations of the letters, and not the letters themselves. For example, they know "S is this key", but rarely do they know "This key is S". So, in reverse thinking this method may be corrupted and used to a certain mischevious advantage. This would hinder the typer's knowledge, because he is now thinking the other way around, which will definitely slow him down and annoy him (or "piss him off", so to say) more than someone who looks at it the other way.
I tend to avoid this mess by taking the "blank challenge", where you are given a drawing of a keyboard, with every key blank. Your job is to fill them out. I have learned to solve this by using a rhyme that works surprisingly well. It goes "Qwertyuiopasdfghjkl! Zxcvbnm!" (notice the complete lack of vowels in "Zxcvbnm"), or as you would pronounce it, "Kwerteeu'i'ohpasdifgihjkul! Zexkivbinum!". Then I simply go in order and fill out the keyboard keys sequentially. So, this would definitely solve the reverse psychology problems.

Now that I have analyzed this, what do you say?

Hey, cool! My 300th post! Time to get an avatar.

EDIT: How do I upload it?

If you are switching the M and N keys on your computer, it may be time to get a life. ;)

I'd prefer not to use tools on my sensitive electronic equipment for the purposes of boring psychological expiraments, thank you very much.

Yes, but it will be a subliminal and underlaying conduct.

EDIT: Dangit I just removed my spacebar and I don't know which way to put it back in. I think I have it upside-down.

So was the kinetic hypnosis I used on you, to subconsciously convince you that switching keys would be interesting. ;)

Stupid spacebar. It's all messed up now. Whenever I press it it makes a clickly noise.

ON TOPIC: @Quasar: Are you serious? :wow:

Some keyboards don't let you remove keys without breaking them, this is especially true with laptops. Remember if you break a key off a laptop and you can't get it back on, you're in one jolly big pickle.

@ Perfection: My spacebar attachments broke, so I had to get a toolkit and fix it. But I did do it!

A very comical thread. Well done. :goodjob:

Moved to Comp.

I remember one time I took apart my keyboard... man. If you don't line that stuff up exactly right... you'll find yourself typing nonsense like "The cat sat on the mat," when all you wanted to type was some random jibberish. Entertaining, yes. Automatic Airborne Keyboard, yes.

I find that the odds of someone typing with less than four fingers in a house where there is an adult that is fairly skilled with computers to be very slim, because even if that person is chopsticking, then an annoyance would be cast upon the superiors, who would ingrain atleast another finger into his repetoir.

I only played the game thats came with the typing software instead of learning. :p Its called the "hunt and peck" method. I know where all the keys are just can't do it from memory. ;) I can do 30 WPM sometimes. And yes there is no one in my house who skilled with computers. Cept me. :D

Now that I have analyzed this, what do you say?

I say I'm speechless. Liked the part about the keyboard rhyme, though.

That was most interesting. Indeed. :)

It's not much of a problem because I use my right index to hit both M and N, although I might have to get used to hitting the "wrong" key to get the other letter (i.e hitting "N" to get "M")