Interesting Discovery...
Ok, this will take some explaining: my mum's boyfriend is Arabic, and he wanted to browse some websites in arabic. Unfortunately, windows isn't particularly tailored for this, but we installed the new language packs and set it all up...but the keyboard was still in English. So, we got some stickers, cut them up, and stuck them to the keys. Then we opened up word, and with a pen, wrote the new symbols on each of the keys. This is what the end product looked like:
The interesting thing is that my keyboard broke the other day (I thought better of logitech...will have to try and fix it...) and I just grabbed the Arabic keyboard. I had a vague idea where the keys were, so I thought i would be allright: i was very surprised when i discovered that not only could I use the keyboard as normal, but i don't even have to look at the keyboard when i'm typing. I've not taken my eyes of the screen the whole time i've been typing this thread; at first, it was tricky, but then I learned to trust my fingers, and now i'm tapping away faster than i did when I had keys.
The keys on the keyboard were holding me back! So I encourage you to try this, cover you keys with stickers and see how much faster you'll become.
It reminded me of something I once saw on TV: Chinese children are sometimes sent to special "Abacus School" where they learn to use the abacus really, really, fast. They hold speed competitions, and teach them how to use the abacus to do complex arithmetic such as cube roots. Then, they just take the abaci away, and the kids just 'do the motions' in mid air, without an abacus, and write the correct answer down. Being able to do cube roots in your head is quite a skill
Anyone else had a similar experience? I wonder what else is holding me back...
-Dave
Originally Posted by jdbnsn
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