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You probably won't want to hear this but you really don't need a mechanical keyboard (or any special keyboard) to learn to touch type. Not sure you'd notice much difference.
I am sure this is true, but there are a few things going hand in hand here, learning to type being part of a larger process of returning to education / work and therefore setting up a workspace.
Said workspace was not going to be "laptop on table" but rather "nice big monitor, mouse and keyboard".
Since I needed to get a keyboard anyway....
But, maddeningly, I seem to have bought a keyboard that is making it harder to learn to type since it is so darn sensitive. As in just lightly resting my finger on the home row tends to type a character.
I may be wrong here. I might just need to practice more to get more accurate. Hmmm
Also, you can type at 140 words per minute? 140?
Wow!
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You probably won't want to hear this but you really don't need a mechanical keyboard (or any special keyboard) to learn to touch type. Not sure you'd notice much difference.
But it's always nice to have a new toy.
I can type just as fast (~140wpm) on pretty much any keyboard (once I've had a few minutes to familiarise myself with it). Once you have the muscle memory then your brain can cope quite easily with the micro adjustments needed to type on a different keyboard.
The difficult bit is getting the muscle memory for touch typing in the first place.