Journal #8376

Thats a nice keyboard!
I hope in future i will be able to afford one of those 1ns mechanical keyboards

Wait, is that a blank keyboard? That's odd, never seen one before.
What's that useful for? (I suspect not looking at it when typing, but it's not that... logical imo).

It was the whole idea of Das Keyboard, mechanical kb's are awesome.

A blank keyboard forces the typist to type by touch without looking down.

It builds good typing habit, and allows extremely fast typing.

Well, I disagree with that logic. I have a printed keyboard and I don't look at it. I always had.

I had my first computer( a Pentium 2) when I was 6. Nobody forced me to learn to type fast. It was a natural process :).

Once you learn the key position and function you just practice to make that seem as every day something.
You begin to feel where everything is so you don't need indicators any more.

Its like an synthesizer keyboard, there are no notes on it.

I use the brown switch Das Keyboard at work, it's a very nice keyboard. At home I use blue switches at the moment, but I think I prefer the brown now, so I'll probably get the same model next time I need a new keyboard at home. As for keycaps, I prefer them to be left on. Touch typing is one thing, but programming is quite different. Also, I can't touch type numbers or the F1-12 keys.

Your son is very lucky to have a dad like you!

Totally on my list to get one of these, and would like to try out the blank caps as well.. (or one of the cheaper mechanical gaming keyboards around $70)

It's entirely possible to press all the keys on the keyboard without looking, including the symbols, the function keys, and even the "End" or arrow keys.

I do that at work every day. I admit that the accuracy is somewhat lower once I leave the home row, but overall, not looking is a lot faster. Every now and then, I press [F1] instead of [F2], but the time saving in the long run is worth the sporadic mistakes.

Laptop keyboards don't allow that. It's very easy to hit Esc instead of F1 or ` or even `, Delete or Insert instead of Backspace, and whatever random misstrokes depending on the random layouts made by laptop keyboard makers. Even with labels, sometimes I hit the power button instead of Esc (yeah that's a shitty design)