Laptop or Keyboard?

By torejasan - updated: 2 years, 10 months ago - 24 messages

Hello! How many of you out there with pretty good WPM are using laptop/ regular office keyboards compared to people with custom keyboards? Thank you!
By seinfeld - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

I type using piano keyboard (88 keys). Too edgy? ;]
Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
By smokemifugottem - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

Idk if my WPM (~80) is considered pretty good. It's pretty good to me lol. I normally do typing tests at work, so I use a very crappy dell chicklet keyboard that misses presses all the time lol.
By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

I'm using the keyboard on a school laptop lol. The spacebar is missing a stabiliser and a every press sounds like a gunshot.
By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

Cool, i guess :/
By garmfellow - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

Not sure if I have "pretty good WPM" by your standards, but I type on just a normal keyboard. Ive probably increased my wpm by 20 or so on this keyboard, so keyboard doesn't really matter unless there are genuine issues with it. Good Luck!
By seinfeld - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

No need to guess :]
By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

Imma guess. Sorry :/
By seinfeld - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

Be my GUESSt then ^___^
Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

Dont gotta be; I already am
By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

What were you at before?
By seinfeld - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

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Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

You wanna put context on that bud?
By seinfeld - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

I'm not your buddy, guy.
By seinfeld - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

All context has been scrubbed off, I'm afraid :/
By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

Sure you are :/
By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

I wonder why? Can't you take the time to do so? :/
By seinfeld - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

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By torejasan - posted: 2 years, 11 months ago

Making vague statements doesn't have any room for 'context'
By maxwellsdad - posted: 2 years, 10 months ago

WPM ~ 100. Had a fancy mechanical keyboard, after two years the W,E,R keys became loose, the enter key fell off, and the spacebar broke.

I started using a 5€ keyboard that I wanted to use until I could figure out how to fix the mechanical one, was quite surprised to find out that it works just as well as the other one. Same wpm and for some reason the cheap one feels more satisfying.
By kheng - posted: 2 years, 10 months ago

Nice! Me too. Yamaha P45 Hahaha
Updated 2 years, 10 months ago
By colemak12 - posted: 2 years, 10 months ago

I have an Ergodox EZ with Colemak keyboard layout. 80 WPM.
By simplysacha - posted: 2 years, 10 months ago

80-90WPM here. I type mainly on a cheap mechanical keyboard, a custom mechanical, and a laptop Keyboard. I'm able to get up to speed no matter the keyboard (even crappy ones), but I tend to do a bit better on burst when on the mechanical ones
By bcurty32 - posted: 2 years, 10 months ago

I went from about 40 words per minute to 80 while using a cheap logitech keyboard that I've had for like 5 years. I used the keyboard on my school chromebook occasionally and the keyboard on my personal laptop. I just recently bought a mechanical keyboard just for the fun of it. I can hit 80+ on all of these keyboards after a few minutes of getting used to it. Mechanical vs membrane doesn't make much of a difference imo as long as there is some decent feedback and tactility.
By lesbubbles - posted: 2 years, 10 months ago

For me, typing speed doesn't vary much when comparing mechanical keyboards (MX Blues and Gateron browns) and my ThinkPad laptop.

The main issue with cheap rubber keyboards are that the travel distance is small so that you feel the impact more in your fingers, and that some rubber domes require a lot of force to type. So for longer sessions, mechanical keyboards are a lot more comfortable, but you can easily hit over 100wpm on a crappy laptop keyboard. I've even seen people do 200wpm on laptops.