I want to buy a new keyboard for Linux

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Mechanical keyboards normally have bigger keys than normal keyboards.
Additionally mechanical keys takes more press to type so you can't mistipe because it easy to feel when you do.

Thank you for your explanation because I didn't know that mechanical keyboards have larger keys than "traditional" keyboards and that it requires more press to type. I will definitely buy a mechanical keyboard, and I am grateful to you and the other members for the help you give me.
 


I'll give credit where credit is due (from a couple of posts above) and say that Microsoft makes great keyboards and mice. They are absolutely among the best of their breed. Yes, it's a membrane keyboard but it'll still last forever. I've had more than one that I used so much that the plastic had worn away where I hit the space bar.

Err... I type fairly quickly but I don't type the way they teach in school. My hands hover over the home row but I use different fingers for different things. I hit the space bar with my right thumb and it's always in the same spot (or really close to it). I've had that spot wear down as much as a quarter inch.

On a good keyboard, and one that I've been using for a few minutes to adjust, I can hit 90 to 95 wpm with 100% accuracy. I can go faster but my accuracy drops quickly.

I am nowhere near a 'record typist'. Some dude got over 300 wpm not that long ago. It was mentioned in a news article I saw and it was quite impressive. He's just a kid, or was at the time. I can't imagine typing that fast. I'm comfortable with where I am right now. Plus, I can type while talking to someone about something else. I don't do that often as it is a bit rude - but so wasn't interrupting me while I was typing!
 
I'll give credit where credit is due (from a couple of posts above) and say that Microsoft makes great keyboards and mice. They are absolutely among the best of their breed. Yes, it's a membrane keyboard but it'll still last forever. I've had more than one that I used so much that the plastic had worn away where I hit the space bar.

Err... I type fairly quickly but I don't type the way they teach in school. My hands hover over the home row but I use different fingers for different things. I hit the space bar with my right thumb and it's always in the same spot (or really close to it). I've had that spot wear down as much as a quarter inch.

On a good keyboard, and one that I've been using for a few minutes to adjust, I can hit 90 to 95 wpm with 100% accuracy. I can go faster but my accuracy drops quickly.

I am nowhere near a 'record typist'. Some dude got over 300 wpm not that long ago. It was mentioned in a news article I saw and it was quite impressive. He's just a kid, or was at the time. I can't imagine typing that fast. I'm comfortable with where I am right now. Plus, I can type while talking to someone about something else. I don't do that often as it is a bit rude - but so wasn't interrupting me while I was typing!

I had a Microsoft keyboard, it was great but I do not want to have anything more of this Evil company.
I have not attended a typing school and so I arrange to type with two fingers :)
 
I arrange to type with two fingers
Oh no man.
The way I learned to type fast is to listen to the music and type the songs into notepad, I suggest you do so as well.
typing with two fingers is PITA.
 
I've only failed two classes in my life. That was typing in prep/high school and as an intro class at the college level.

IRC taught me to type. I memorized where the backspace key was and intentionally ignored everything I'd tried to learn earlier in life. Yup... It was chatting that made it so that I can type with reasonable speed.

The first one was on old electric typewriters - not the old manual ones. The second one was an old computer keyboard and they called it 'keyboarding'. The classroom was full of dumb terminals. We'd log in and it'd keep track of our typing prowess. I think I managed maybe 35 wpm on a good day - and that was done while staring at the keyboard. So, I'd make mistakes and have to fix them, which slowed me down even more.

But, I decided I'd learn to type for real when chat rolled around. (As an aside, I don't really like chat today.) I just refused to look at the keyboard and typed as my fingers wanted. It's 'wrong' for me to type this way, but it works well enough. I just had to spend a few months chatting while only knowing where the backspace key was. It was frustrating but I managed.

Assuming the teacher wasn't paying attention, I could pass a typing class today. I probably hover around 60 wpm as I'm not really in a rush. I only type faster when there's something pressing elsewhere. If I type too fast, I end up being more verbose. I'm sure there's a reason for it.
 
I don't have a link but there are sites online that let you measure how fast you type.

Just type 'typing test' into your favorite search engine. There's virtually no end to them, each vying to be near the top in search engine results so that they can gain more ad revenue.
 
Just type 'typing test' into your favorite search engine. There's virtually no end to them, each vying to be near the top in search engine results so that they can gain more ad revenue.
I did "hard test" 4 times in a row (because wasn't familiar with UI) and here are the results:


test.png
 
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