# keyboard for faster typing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-for-faster-typing/157758>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-for-faster-typing/157758 "2003-02-26T23:54:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-for-faster-typing/157758/1 "2003-02-26T23:54:05Z")

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i have that microsoft natural keyboard on the desktop, that i like the layout of but …

but then i also have this IBM thinkpad, and while the keyboard there is small and not really comfortable i can type much faster on it !

the reason is that its keys are very light, and their travel is very small ( maybe 2.5 millimeters or so ) while the microsoft keyboard has a rather standard keyboard feel where you have to press they key in deep for it to register.

as a result i have to actually hit or press they keys on the microsoft but by contrast on the thinkpad i just glide my fingers over the keys.

now i want to get a keyboard like that on a thinkpad for my desktop, anybody knows of such units ?

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**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-for-faster-typing/157758/2 "2003-02-26T23:57:09Z")

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I assume you don’t want to learn the Dvorak keyboard?

[http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/](http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/)

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**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-for-faster-typing/157758/3 "2003-02-27T00:12:05Z")

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certainly not, what’s next you gona suggest i learn azerty ?

🙂

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**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-for-faster-typing/157758/4 "2003-02-27T03:01:06Z")

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I tried switching to dvorak but I was too used to being able to type fast and it was frustrating having to start over.