Random Raves XLVII: Who wants cookies?

[dusters]

https://lichess.org/7RXy2rQf/white#37

Opponent messed up the opening, nice punish.

 

[rah]

I got one of those rainbow keyboards with the computer I bought but replaced it with a regular one after I couldn't read the keys in the dark. If you can't read them in the dark, what's the point?

 

[Synobun]

You can read a keyboard with no light in the dark but can't read a keyboard with backlighting in the dark?

 

[Lexicus]

And anyway, it's bad for your eyes to be staring at the light source in a room...I never have the computer on without either having a light on or daylight coming through the windows.

 

[rah]

I don't usually do it in the dark but with a lit keyboard I thought that might be possible and a plus.
Alas it wasn't.

 

[Lexicus]

Also, shouldn't you be typing by touch? Why do you need to look at the keyboard at all?

 

[MaryKB]

Also, shouldn't you be typing by touch? Why do you need to look at the keyboard at all?

I was going to say this, lol! I can't remember the last time I actually looked at my keyboard while I'm typing I could write on my computer blindfolded ... but to be fair, rah grew up in the days of cuneiform, so he wouldn't have learned to type from an early age like you and I did

 

[Lexicus]

I was going to say this, lol! I can't remember the last time I actually looked at my keyboard while I'm typing I could write on my computer blindfolded ... but to be fair, rah grew up in the days of cuneiform, so he wouldn't have learned to type from an early age like you and I did

I learned to type properly by arguing with people on the internet, pretty much

 

[Synobun]

Lexicus? Arguing on the internet?

That can't be right. He'd never.

 

[MaryKB]

I learned to type properly by arguing with people on the internet, pretty much

I had typing class in school ... oh so you never had the asdfjkl; ?? XD

 

[Snerk]

I learned to type properly by arguing with people on the internet, pretty much

I disagree.

 

[rah]

I do type by touch, but sometimes my fingers shift over or I forget a specific special character.
I've been typing for over 50 years.

 

[MaryKB]

I do type by touch, but sometimes my fingers shift over or I forget a specific special character.
I've been typing for over 50 years.

My keyboard has the little bumps on F and J, which helps if my fingers ever get out of place. Special characters are fair though, some of them are very rare to use and your muscle memory won't know where they are

 

[Synobun]

My keyboard has the little bumps on F and J, which helps if my fingers ever get out of place. Special characters are fair though, some of them are very rare to use and your muscle memory won't know where they are

Bet you know where $$$$$$$$ is.

 

[rah]

Some of my keyboards have had them but my current on does not.
It's funny when you type for about a minute before you notice your hands had shifted over one.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I get to ride the train tomorrow, super duper stoked about it.

I can't drill holes in the wall for the IKEA stability brackets.

My bookshelf has one of these and I'm convinced it wouldn't do anything to hold the bookshelf up if it tipped. Even still I feel guilty for not having the bracket fastened down.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My keyboard has the little bumps on F and J, which helps if my fingers ever get out of place. Special characters are fair though, some of them are very rare to use and your muscle memory won't know where they are

I think most keyboards have those little bumps. I can type with my eyes closed as long as my fingers don't get out of place. I'm doing so now!

 

[Broken_Erika]

I can type with my eyes closed too!
see? i'm rupinh eoyj mu rurd vlodrf!

 

[Lexicus]

I had typing class in school ... oh so you never had the asdfjkl; ?? XD

I had typing class in school, but I had already started typing on my own by then and typing class didn't really speed up my typing at all (in fact, it slowed me down insofar as I had to actually think about having 'correct technique'). It was years of banging out long, argumentative posts that got me the 1337 typing skillz I boast today.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I was in typing class briefly in high school. I switched because I didn't really need it.