<story><title>A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist</title><url>https://bojanvidanovic.com/posts/a-keyboard-with-blank-keycaps-made-me-an-expert-typist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triangleman</author><text>More accurately: &amp;quot;Learning to touch type made me an expert typist. Also I bought a keyboard with blank keycaps.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you&amp;#x27;re learning to type, why would you do that? And even if you do cheat and look, you could still practice the hand movements.&lt;p&gt;With that said, I learned to touch type in 1-2 weeks with _The Typing of the Dead_ on a Sega Dreamcast and this keyboard:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&amp;#x2F;det&amp;#x2F;39589&amp;#x2F;Dreamcast-Keyboard-(UK)&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&amp;#x2F;det&amp;#x2F;39589&amp;#x2F;Dreamcast-Keybo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can find the game on Steam today (updated with new crowd sourced text options)&lt;p&gt;w&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;t HHKB: I have the &amp;quot;Lite&amp;quot; version and I could never get into it. Fn-keys, other key placements were too unnatural. Anyone want it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benglish11</author><text>&amp;gt;but if you&amp;#x27;re learning to type, why would you do that&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people don&amp;#x27;t try hard if there is no fear of failure. Removing the key labels makes it harder to cheat and forces you to do it the right way. Some people will rationalize in their head (&amp;quot;oh it&amp;#x27;s just this one email I am typing, I am so far behind I can&amp;#x27;t afford to be slowed down&amp;quot;). I can see this method being effective by &amp;quot;forcing&amp;quot; people to learn to touch type.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist</title><url>https://bojanvidanovic.com/posts/a-keyboard-with-blank-keycaps-made-me-an-expert-typist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triangleman</author><text>More accurately: &amp;quot;Learning to touch type made me an expert typist. Also I bought a keyboard with blank keycaps.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you&amp;#x27;re learning to type, why would you do that? And even if you do cheat and look, you could still practice the hand movements.&lt;p&gt;With that said, I learned to touch type in 1-2 weeks with _The Typing of the Dead_ on a Sega Dreamcast and this keyboard:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&amp;#x2F;det&amp;#x2F;39589&amp;#x2F;Dreamcast-Keyboard-(UK)&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&amp;#x2F;det&amp;#x2F;39589&amp;#x2F;Dreamcast-Keybo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can find the game on Steam today (updated with new crowd sourced text options)&lt;p&gt;w&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;t HHKB: I have the &amp;quot;Lite&amp;quot; version and I could never get into it. Fn-keys, other key placements were too unnatural. Anyone want it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>someone7x</author><text>&amp;gt; I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you&amp;#x27;re learning to type, why would you do that?&lt;p&gt;I think for some folks it’s a real cognitive challenge to willingly ignore useful information.&lt;p&gt;I know it was for me; I needed a das keyboard to make the learn-to-type “metagame” have sufficiently imperfect information to become “playable” enough for me to stick with it.</text></comment>