1. Yes
2. HP DC7700 office desktop accessory keyboard. I had a stockpile of them but sadly I’m down to my last one :(

Been a touch typist for a while now, but I prefer my IBM Model M as a daily driver. I have a new modern take on the IBM Model F coming in in a few weeks that I’m very stoked about. Buckling spring switches are the best keyboard types ever made.

Yes, I touch-type, and use a kinesis advantage keyboard that makes touch typing “almost unavoidable” (as one blogger wrote). I also use the Dvorak layout, and get nearly 100 wpm without really trying (and using low-effort brain-to-keyboard data transfer is the way to go, imho).

1. Yes.
2. I really enjoy my Ducky One 3 with Cherry MX brown switches.

One word: miryoku

Got tendonitis, so I used Kinesis Advantage for many years. Then the Glove80 came out, which I consider even better than any of the Kinesis Advantage, and I’ve had all models. And yes, I type without looking.

QWERTY at about 130-140 wpm, but not 10 finger. 10 finger ortholinear about 100 wpm, and about 90 wpm on staggered. As I was trying workman, I managed to type at about 50-60 wpm.

Yes, I can touch-type.
I prefer colemak but abandoned it due to the prevalence of QWERTY.
I quite like 60% boards with tactile and clicky switches.
I’ve only used a few makes so i couldn’t say if i preferred one over another.

I use only 40% and 30% keyboards, thats ones without dedicated number or f key rows, and have done so for about six years now. Majority I use are standard stagger but a few are ortho or splits. Almost all of them that I like using are split space with left half as enter and the right as space.

I can touch type, although I am not the fastest, only a bit above 80wpm. This is mostly due to me being dyslexic so spelling is challenging for me and I can get bogged down looking up words or retyping it. If I do not give a shit about spelling I can easily get well over 100wpm.

I think the main show off skill I can do is look at a person I am talking to while typing a different conversation on the computer. Obviously I cannot do either if its complicated conversations but simple stuff is fine.

120 wpm peak; comfortably 100 with high accuracy. Playing online games with no mic had me typing fast. Then I got a heavy data entry job. Not winning competitions, but I’m pretty happy considering I don’t follow the formal method.

I have a specific old Dell membrane keyboard I prefer over anything I’ve tried. Not a fan of mechanical keyboards. Tried blues and browns.

I can’t even imagine not typing blind, without looking at keys.

Fun fact: My left hand is not 10-finger-syste-positioned but WASD gamer-system positioned. Works fine anyway for blind and fast typing.

QWERTZ. Cherry Keyboard, mechanical keys, full with numpad.

I did look into alternative layouts like DVORAK a long time ago, but it didn’t seem worth the investment of relearning. Current works good enough. (Even as a coder where parens and braces are more cumbersome than EN layouts.)

I use Dvorak btw

But yeah I touch type, but I often need to look to use qwerty when I’m on someone else’s computer

Yes, I love typing and do it quickly. I guess I prefer QWERTY but only because that’s the one I learned on and got good at. I hate keys that are too flat, like laptops and some office keyboards trying too hard to look streamlined.

When I’m thinking of how to spell a word, in my mind’s eye I see it being typed out and that’s how I find the correct spelling.

I can, until i realize that I’m doing it, then it just all goes to shit and i have to switch back to hunt and peck.

I can ten-key like a mother fucker though, used to work at a bank doing data entry…

Yes, we had a computer lab in grade school that we would go to maybe once a week or once every two weeks. We learned qwerty and the teacher would cover your hands with paper so you couldn’t look. It was infuriating at the time but once I learned it, I was set for life. I don’t really think about it, it’s just like speaking a language to me. For the most part I type properly but I have gotten into a strange habit of hitting delete with my middle finger instead of my pinky finger. No clue why/when that started and I have to reach over farther but now that’s second nature as well. I recall if you got good enough you could play around on the games in Mavis Beacon!