Fast Typing: Keyboard Layouts
My two cents on the RSI and fast typing.<p>I learned typing 40 years ago, in the same way as secretaries do, with a real mechanical typewriter (an Olivetti one), and following an standard typewriter course for 2 months. My parents and relatives also used mechanical typewriters for 20 years before (8 hours a day).<p>The writer says &quot;CapsLock is useless... remap&quot;. 
I have seen that statement a lot of times, and I deeply feel it wrong. That means the author hasn&#x27;t been properly trained at typing. Maybe he also lacks:<p>- The balance of the &quot;space&quot; between the two hands.<p>- using the opposite shift for the special chars.<p>- using caps for continuous uppercase...<p>- numbers had an assigned finger.  (Some people overuse only 2 fingers for them).<p>- the hand position and they way the rest&#x2F;float in the keyboard, needed to achieve more than 100word&#x2F;min.<p>- forearm and hand alignment.<p>I have work with people with RSI and almost all of them lack proper training at typing. So they tend to overuse 2&#x2F;3 fingers, to only use one side of the space bar, or only one shift. They don&#x27;t balance correctly the hands, and some positions are forced.