Exotic destinationshttp://lab.objoo.org/2017-12-19T23:22:00+01:00Of Keyboards...2017-12-19T23:22:00+01:00Ytag:lab.objoo.org,2017-12-19:bepo keyboards.html<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_i_m_back_once_again">I’m back (Once again)</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2 years since my last article. Wow ! Long long time !</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As lots of us, I’m using a computer for extended periods of time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And for this task, like everybody, I use a mouse and a keyboard. This is quite
striking that most of us use a default keyboard. For French people, that
means a membran or chicklet AZERTY 106 touch keyboard. This is quite unfortunate, as
we stupidly use sub-optimal technologies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For a long period of time, more than 10 years, I used a keytronic ergoforce keyboard at home.
It was membran/rubber dome based, but very tactile. Really loved it. At work, was
just using default keyboard with much less enthousiasm.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also striking to me is that I use a computer since I’m 12, and almost all my
days (and night) since I’m 18. Yup, more than 30 years ago, and never ever learn to type properly on a
keyboard.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Circa 2009, I began to (ligtly) experience wrist pain. After thinking a little about this, I decided to take the plunge and
try to improve typing comfort and speed by coverting my beloved keytronic at home to bépo (french dvorak equivalent), putting
stickers on it. This was a big mistake. I largely under estimated the task,
and cowardly gave up after two weeks or so… But stickers remained on the
keytronic with the secret hope that one day, I’ll really go for it. Of
course, this never happened. And this good keyboard collected dust for
years, while using an inferior keyboard instead. End of story. Sort of…</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This inferior keyboard eventually broke down in november this year, giving
me another chance to try bépo layout. And this time, I tried to insist a
little, doing exercises (with klavaro) and also learning to blindly type
with all fingers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a really frustrating experience. Really. I never was a very fast nor
precise typer. On Azerty, I usually barely surpass 55 Word Per Minutes which is not
stellar, and sometimes go under 50, due to excessive errors.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But first tries in bepo mode were so low I couldn’t bare it more than a few
minutes, it’s like mental torture ; see the numbers reported by klavaro,
after some days of training. That was the first full test I had enough
courage to finish :</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>8 words per minutes. Really frustating.
that was in november 2017, the 6.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since, progression is steady but slow.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So, here are the numbers :</p>
</div>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 1. Typing speed progression</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">date</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">score</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-06</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">8.14</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-12</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.71</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.96*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">10.05</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-21</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.84</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-23</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.90*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-24</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.97</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">13.51*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">14.56*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-16</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 2. Progression since publication</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">2017-12-19</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">17.40</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-26</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">18.57</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-27</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.27*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.60*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">19.04</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-18</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">20.06</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">21.09</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-02</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">22.99</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">24.76</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-13</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">25.64</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">27.84</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I promise to keep posting my progression numbers here, but it’s slow…​
I must confess that for my work, I still use azerty, which is probably limiting progress, and at home, when in
hurry, i’m not going bépo systematically… Even today I’m not fast enough to
prevent me to switch. I’ll probably go for it when I’ll be able to surpass 35 MPM, which is a long way to go.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting note : blindly typing on a keyboard gives you much more feedback on the quality of it ; Rubber domes seems much more crappy; Keytronic is much more better, but who can even beat the feeling of a mechanical keyboard…​</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Proudly (and slowly) totally entered on a mechanical (outemu blue switches) bépo
keyboard. [Next article will probably be about mechanical keyboards…​]</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Of Keyboards...2017-12-19T23:22:00+01:00Ytag:lab.objoo.org,2017-12-19:bepo keyboards.html<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_i_m_back_once_again">I’m back (Once again)</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2 years since my last article. Wow ! Long long time !</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As lots of us, I’m using a computer for extended periods of time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And for this task, like everybody, I use a mouse and a keyboard. This is quite
striking that most of us use a default keyboard. For French people, that
means a membran or chicklet AZERTY 106 touch keyboard. This is quite unfortunate, as
we stupidly use sub-optimal technologies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For a long period of time, more than 10 years, I used a keytronic ergoforce keyboard at home.
It was membran/rubber dome based, but very tactile. Really loved it. At work, was
just using default keyboard with much less enthousiasm.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also striking to me is that I use a computer since I’m 12, and almost all my
days (and night) since I’m 18. Yup, more than 30 years ago, and never ever learn to type properly on a
keyboard.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Circa 2009, I began to (ligtly) experience wrist pain. After thinking a little about this, I decided to take the plunge and
try to improve typing comfort and speed by coverting my beloved keytronic at home to bépo (french dvorak equivalent), putting
stickers on it. This was a big mistake. I largely under estimated the task,
and cowardly gave up after two weeks or so… But stickers remained on the
keytronic with the secret hope that one day, I’ll really go for it. Of
course, this never happened. And this good keyboard collected dust for
years, while using an inferior keyboard instead. End of story. Sort of…</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This inferior keyboard eventually broke down in november this year, giving
me another chance to try bépo layout. And this time, I tried to insist a
little, doing exercises (with klavaro) and also learning to blindly type
with all fingers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a really frustrating experience. Really. I never was a very fast nor
precise typer. On Azerty, I usually barely surpass 55 Word Per Minutes which is not
stellar, and sometimes go under 50, due to excessive errors.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But first tries in bepo mode were so low I couldn’t bare it more than a few
minutes, it’s like mental torture ; see the numbers reported by klavaro,
after some days of training. That was the first full test I had enough
courage to finish :</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>8 words per minutes. Really frustating.
that was in november 2017, the 6.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since, progression is steady but slow.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So, here are the numbers :</p>
</div>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 1. Typing speed progression</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">date</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">score</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-06</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">8.14</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-12</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.71</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.96*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">10.05</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-21</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.84</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-23</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.90*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-24</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.97</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">13.51*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">14.56*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-16</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 2. Progression since publication</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">2017-12-19</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">17.40</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-26</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">18.57</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-27</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.27*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.60*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">19.04</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-18</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">20.06</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">21.09</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-02</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">22.99</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">24.76</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-13</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">25.64</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">27.84</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I promise to keep posting my progression numbers here, but it’s slow…​
I must confess that for my work, I still use azerty, which is probably limiting progress, and at home, when in
hurry, i’m not going bépo systematically… Even today I’m not fast enough to
prevent me to switch. I’ll probably go for it when I’ll be able to surpass 35 MPM, which is a long way to go.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting note : blindly typing on a keyboard gives you much more feedback on the quality of it ; Rubber domes seems much more crappy; Keytronic is much more better, but who can even beat the feeling of a mechanical keyboard…​</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Proudly (and slowly) totally entered on a mechanical (outemu blue switches) bépo
keyboard. [Next article will probably be about mechanical keyboards…​]</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Of Keyboards...2017-12-19T23:22:00+01:00Ytag:lab.objoo.org,2017-12-19:bepo keyboards.html<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_i_m_back_once_again">I’m back (Once again)</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2 years since my last article. Wow ! Long long time !</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As lots of us, I’m using a computer for extended periods of time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And for this task, like everybody, I use a mouse and a keyboard. This is quite
striking that most of us use a default keyboard. For French people, that
means a membran or chicklet AZERTY 106 touch keyboard. This is quite unfortunate, as
we stupidly use sub-optimal technologies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For a long period of time, more than 10 years, I used a keytronic ergoforce keyboard at home.
It was membran/rubber dome based, but very tactile. Really loved it. At work, was
just using default keyboard with much less enthousiasm.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also striking to me is that I use a computer since I’m 12, and almost all my
days (and night) since I’m 18. Yup, more than 30 years ago, and never ever learn to type properly on a
keyboard.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Circa 2009, I began to (ligtly) experience wrist pain. After thinking a little about this, I decided to take the plunge and
try to improve typing comfort and speed by coverting my beloved keytronic at home to bépo (french dvorak equivalent), putting
stickers on it. This was a big mistake. I largely under estimated the task,
and cowardly gave up after two weeks or so… But stickers remained on the
keytronic with the secret hope that one day, I’ll really go for it. Of
course, this never happened. And this good keyboard collected dust for
years, while using an inferior keyboard instead. End of story. Sort of…</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This inferior keyboard eventually broke down in november this year, giving
me another chance to try bépo layout. And this time, I tried to insist a
little, doing exercises (with klavaro) and also learning to blindly type
with all fingers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a really frustrating experience. Really. I never was a very fast nor
precise typer. On Azerty, I usually barely surpass 55 Word Per Minutes which is not
stellar, and sometimes go under 50, due to excessive errors.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But first tries in bepo mode were so low I couldn’t bare it more than a few
minutes, it’s like mental torture ; see the numbers reported by klavaro,
after some days of training. That was the first full test I had enough
courage to finish :</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>8 words per minutes. Really frustating.
that was in november 2017, the 6.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since, progression is steady but slow.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So, here are the numbers :</p>
</div>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 1. Typing speed progression</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">date</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">score</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-06</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">8.14</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-12</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.71</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.96*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">10.05</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-21</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.84</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-23</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.90*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-24</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.97</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">13.51*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">14.56*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-16</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 2. Progression since publication</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">2017-12-19</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">17.40</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-26</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">18.57</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-27</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.27*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.60*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">19.04</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-18</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">20.06</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">21.09</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-02</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">22.99</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">24.76</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-13</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">25.64</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">27.84</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I promise to keep posting my progression numbers here, but it’s slow…​
I must confess that for my work, I still use azerty, which is probably limiting progress, and at home, when in
hurry, i’m not going bépo systematically… Even today I’m not fast enough to
prevent me to switch. I’ll probably go for it when I’ll be able to surpass 35 MPM, which is a long way to go.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting note : blindly typing on a keyboard gives you much more feedback on the quality of it ; Rubber domes seems much more crappy; Keytronic is much more better, but who can even beat the feeling of a mechanical keyboard…​</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Proudly (and slowly) totally entered on a mechanical (outemu blue switches) bépo
keyboard. [Next article will probably be about mechanical keyboards…​]</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Of Keyboards...2017-12-19T23:22:00+01:00Ytag:lab.objoo.org,2017-12-19:bepo keyboards.html<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_i_m_back_once_again">I’m back (Once again)</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2 years since my last article. Wow ! Long long time !</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As lots of us, I’m using a computer for extended periods of time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And for this task, like everybody, I use a mouse and a keyboard. This is quite
striking that most of us use a default keyboard. For French people, that
means a membran or chicklet AZERTY 106 touch keyboard. This is quite unfortunate, as
we stupidly use sub-optimal technologies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For a long period of time, more than 10 years, I used a keytronic ergoforce keyboard at home.
It was membran/rubber dome based, but very tactile. Really loved it. At work, was
just using default keyboard with much less enthousiasm.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also striking to me is that I use a computer since I’m 12, and almost all my
days (and night) since I’m 18. Yup, more than 30 years ago, and never ever learn to type properly on a
keyboard.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Circa 2009, I began to (ligtly) experience wrist pain. After thinking a little about this, I decided to take the plunge and
try to improve typing comfort and speed by coverting my beloved keytronic at home to bépo (french dvorak equivalent), putting
stickers on it. This was a big mistake. I largely under estimated the task,
and cowardly gave up after two weeks or so… But stickers remained on the
keytronic with the secret hope that one day, I’ll really go for it. Of
course, this never happened. And this good keyboard collected dust for
years, while using an inferior keyboard instead. End of story. Sort of…</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This inferior keyboard eventually broke down in november this year, giving
me another chance to try bépo layout. And this time, I tried to insist a
little, doing exercises (with klavaro) and also learning to blindly type
with all fingers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a really frustrating experience. Really. I never was a very fast nor
precise typer. On Azerty, I usually barely surpass 55 Word Per Minutes which is not
stellar, and sometimes go under 50, due to excessive errors.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But first tries in bepo mode were so low I couldn’t bare it more than a few
minutes, it’s like mental torture ; see the numbers reported by klavaro,
after some days of training. That was the first full test I had enough
courage to finish :</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>8 words per minutes. Really frustating.
that was in november 2017, the 6.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since, progression is steady but slow.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So, here are the numbers :</p>
</div>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 1. Typing speed progression</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">date</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">score</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-06</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">8.14</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-12</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.71</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.96*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">10.05</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-21</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.84</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-23</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.90*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-24</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.97</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">13.51*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">14.56*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-16</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 2. Progression since publication</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">2017-12-19</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">17.40</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-26</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">18.57</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-27</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.27*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.60*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">19.04</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-18</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">20.06</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">21.09</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-02</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">22.99</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">24.76</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-13</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">25.64</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">27.84</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I promise to keep posting my progression numbers here, but it’s slow…​
I must confess that for my work, I still use azerty, which is probably limiting progress, and at home, when in
hurry, i’m not going bépo systematically… Even today I’m not fast enough to
prevent me to switch. I’ll probably go for it when I’ll be able to surpass 35 MPM, which is a long way to go.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting note : blindly typing on a keyboard gives you much more feedback on the quality of it ; Rubber domes seems much more crappy; Keytronic is much more better, but who can even beat the feeling of a mechanical keyboard…​</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Proudly (and slowly) totally entered on a mechanical (outemu blue switches) bépo
keyboard. [Next article will probably be about mechanical keyboards…​]</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Of Keyboards...2017-12-19T23:22:00+01:00Ytag:lab.objoo.org,2017-12-19:bepo keyboards.html<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_i_m_back_once_again">I’m back (Once again)</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2 years since my last article. Wow ! Long long time !</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As lots of us, I’m using a computer for extended periods of time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And for this task, like everybody, I use a mouse and a keyboard. This is quite
striking that most of us use a default keyboard. For French people, that
means a membran or chicklet AZERTY 106 touch keyboard. This is quite unfortunate, as
we stupidly use sub-optimal technologies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For a long period of time, more than 10 years, I used a keytronic ergoforce keyboard at home.
It was membran/rubber dome based, but very tactile. Really loved it. At work, was
just using default keyboard with much less enthousiasm.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also striking to me is that I use a computer since I’m 12, and almost all my
days (and night) since I’m 18. Yup, more than 30 years ago, and never ever learn to type properly on a
keyboard.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Circa 2009, I began to (ligtly) experience wrist pain. After thinking a little about this, I decided to take the plunge and
try to improve typing comfort and speed by coverting my beloved keytronic at home to bépo (french dvorak equivalent), putting
stickers on it. This was a big mistake. I largely under estimated the task,
and cowardly gave up after two weeks or so… But stickers remained on the
keytronic with the secret hope that one day, I’ll really go for it. Of
course, this never happened. And this good keyboard collected dust for
years, while using an inferior keyboard instead. End of story. Sort of…</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This inferior keyboard eventually broke down in november this year, giving
me another chance to try bépo layout. And this time, I tried to insist a
little, doing exercises (with klavaro) and also learning to blindly type
with all fingers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a really frustrating experience. Really. I never was a very fast nor
precise typer. On Azerty, I usually barely surpass 55 Word Per Minutes which is not
stellar, and sometimes go under 50, due to excessive errors.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But first tries in bepo mode were so low I couldn’t bare it more than a few
minutes, it’s like mental torture ; see the numbers reported by klavaro,
after some days of training. That was the first full test I had enough
courage to finish :</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>8 words per minutes. Really frustating.
that was in november 2017, the 6.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since, progression is steady but slow.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So, here are the numbers :</p>
</div>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 1. Typing speed progression</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">date</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">score</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-06</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">8.14</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-12</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.71</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.96*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">10.05</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-21</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">11.84</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-23</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">12.90*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-24</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.97</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">13.51*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-11-28</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">14.56*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-16</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.17</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all" style="width: 80%;">
<caption class="title">Table 2. Progression since publication</caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33.3333%;">
<col style="width: 66.6667%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">2017-12-19</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">17.40</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-26</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">18.57</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-12-27</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">15.27*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2017-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">16.60*</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-05</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">19.04</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-18</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">20.06</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-01-19</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">21.09</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-02</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">22.99</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-11</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">24.76</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-13</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">25.64</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2018-02-20</p></th>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">27.84</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I promise to keep posting my progression numbers here, but it’s slow…​
I must confess that for my work, I still use azerty, which is probably limiting progress, and at home, when in
hurry, i’m not going bépo systematically… Even today I’m not fast enough to
prevent me to switch. I’ll probably go for it when I’ll be able to surpass 35 MPM, which is a long way to go.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting note : blindly typing on a keyboard gives you much more feedback on the quality of it ; Rubber domes seems much more crappy; Keytronic is much more better, but who can even beat the feeling of a mechanical keyboard…​</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Proudly (and slowly) totally entered on a mechanical (outemu blue switches) bépo
keyboard. [Next article will probably be about mechanical keyboards…​]</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>