{"id":12196,"date":"2010-02-22T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T08:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12196"},"modified":"2010-02-22T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T08:12:32","slug":"the-power-of-the-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/22\/the-power-of-the-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of the keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lifehacker<\/a> covers an experiment which tried to compare the speed of different input methods. \u00a0As you might have guessed, full-size keyboard wins.<\/p>\n

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Nobody should ever doubt the power of the full-size keyboard (+ touch-typing). \u00a0It’s faster than pen and paper, and thus is faster than anything that imitates pen and paper. \u00a0It’s faster than downsized keyboard (QWERTY smartphones and iPhones). \u00a0It’s even faster than speaking into a speech-to-text application. \u00a0And more accurate as well. \u00a0And that will remain for some time to come – until brain-to-computer interfaces will go mainstream.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Lifehacker covers an experiment which tried to compare the speed of different input methods. \u00a0As you might have guessed, full-size keyboard wins. Nobody should ever doubt the power of the full-size keyboard (+ touch-typing). \u00a0It’s faster than pen and paper, and thus is faster than anything that imitates pen and paper. \u00a0It’s faster than downsized … Continue reading The power of the keyboard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[799],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-gadgets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18698,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/22\/on-keyboards\/","url_meta":{"origin":12196,"position":0},"title":"On keyboards","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff Atwood shares a few of his thoughts on keyboards: Now, I've grown to begrudgingly accept the fact that\u00a0touchscreen keyboards are here to stay, largely because the average person just doesn't\u00a0need\u00a0to produce much written communication in a given day. 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