{"id":8989,"date":"2005-05-22T10:25:59","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T07:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/22\/the-keyboard-for-the-perfect-world\/"},"modified":"2013-05-22T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:07:07","slug":"the-keyboard-for-the-perfect-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/22\/the-keyboard-for-the-perfect-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The keyboard for the perfect world"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As many of your know, I am an <a href=\"\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/05\/on-touch-typing\/\">advocate and promoter of touchtyping<\/a>. In my perfect world everyone would type with their 10 fingers. (And, yes, everyone would have 10 fingers in my perfect world). In the perfect world there&#8217;s no need for labels on keyboard keys. And, it turns out, that there is just the keyboard for this world of mine &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/daskeyboard.com\/\">Das Keyboard<\/a>. It&#8217;s perfect! It has no labels, it has all the buttons, and it is styled in black. Is there anything else I could wish for?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/mechanical_keyboard.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18201\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/22\/the-keyboard-for-the-perfect-world\/mechanical_keyboard\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/mechanical_keyboard.jpg?fit=920%2C385&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"920,385\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mechanical_keyboard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/mechanical_keyboard.jpg?fit=660%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18201\" alt=\"mechanical_keyboard\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/mechanical_keyboard-500x209.jpg?resize=500%2C209&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/mechanical_keyboard.jpg?resize=500%2C209&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/mechanical_keyboard.jpg?resize=510%2C213&amp;ssl=1 510w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/mechanical_keyboard.jpg?resize=710%2C297&amp;ssl=1 710w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/mechanical_keyboard.jpg?w=920&amp;ssl=1 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The perfect keyboard was found via <a href=\"http:\/\/pchere.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/das-keyboard-for-ubergeeks-blank-keys.html\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As many of your know, I am an advocate and promoter of touchtyping. In my perfect world everyone would type with their 10 fingers. (And, yes, everyone would have 10 fingers in my perfect world). In the perfect world there&#8217;s no need for labels on keyboard keys. And, it turns out, that there is just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/22\/the-keyboard-for-the-perfect-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The keyboard for the perfect world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\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":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16693,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/08\/the-awesomeness-of-swiftkey-3-keyboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":8989,"position":0},"title":"The awesomeness of SwiftKey 3 keyboard","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Following the recommendation of my brother, I've installed the SwiftKey3 keyboard on my Google Nexus. \u00a0And I have to say that it's worth every cent of its 0.85 EUR price tag (there is a special offer currently too). \u00a0I've tried a few keyboards until now and, I'll be honest, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/swiftkey3-281x500.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18698,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/22\/on-keyboards\/","url_meta":{"origin":8989,"position":1},"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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