Improving Typing Speed

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How so? I used to have one, though I never thought much of it.

It pissed me off until I learned to type B with my left hand instead of my right.

It looks like ergonomic keyboards are not scientifically proven to help with one's health.

I, myself, find that typing on my ergonomic keyboard at home is a lot more comfortable for me than to type on a standard keyboard where all the keys are the same size. Most of the times I complained about my wrists and fingers being strained from tendonitis or an incoming onslaught of Carpel Tunnel was when I was typing on my school's keyboards, which were the standard non-ergonomic ones. It's probably from years of adaptive personal preference, though, but like the article said, just find what you're most comfortable with and stick with it - for keyboards and for typing style. I have fairly big fingers myself, so my rubber-dome-switch keyboard will last me for quite a bit (already been five or six years).

Unfortunately, due to the exponential rate of technology innovation these days, I fear that there will be a new system of typing or text input that everyone, in this age, will have to adapt to to become more efficient and productive due to the average populations' typing speed being around 45 +/- 15 WPM (too slow for corporations' liking, I guess).

Wat wat. Why would you spend $80 for an old keyboard? Just go to to Goodwill or someone's garage sale.

If you can find the IBM Model M [Space Saver], then yes, that is the best way to go about it. It's surprising sometimes how people never look into how much their used products are worth before they sell them at a garage/yard sale. I'm just posting an alternative method to obtain one through this method to obtain something similar.