• absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    10 days ago

    This sounds very much like me.

    My propriception is pretty amazing; I can walk around in the dark with confidence. I don’t run into things and it does perplex others. I always know where in space my body is and my sense of balance is good, potentially even great. I picked up snow boarding in an hour and standup paddle boarding in 15 min!

    I have a question for you. How is your typing?

    Often I will type words wrong by moving the double letters, e.g. instead “cool” I’ll unconsciously type “coll”. But I have no trouble switching between keyboard layouts, on my laptop I have it set to qwerty, but on my mechanical board (split crkbd) it is set to colemak. I switch back and forth all day; that confuses everyone I have talked to about it; even my keyboard enthusiast friends; they can’t imagine switching back and forth.

    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I learned qwerty almost 4 decades ago in middle school and by high school was up to 120wpm. I’ve never tried another layout though, that’s plenty fast for me, and a lot of my typing for the first few years was on actual typewriters! I do have a few muscle memory glitches where I will type certain words wrong almost every single time, but now the muscle memory is to type it wrong and also hit the backspaces automatically in the right place. lol

      I would imagine switching keyboard layouts is a lot like switching between languages you’re fluent in. It looks amazing from the outside to those that can’t do it, but to you it’s just natural!