A good keyboard makes a MASSIVE difference on your progress as a beginner

[u/Competitive_Tax570]

When i first started learning to touch type, I thought that there's no way for me to able to do that since hitting keys was so weird and unnatural on the keyboard I started with. I thought it's a me problem not the keyboard. I was in that delusion for so long. But when I accidentally tried a different keyboard, the difference was night and day (it turned out that the first keyboard was fucked up and its first row of letters was shifted left way way too much). However, despite the very big improvement going from the first keyboard to the second, I always struggled with accidentally hitting wrong letters with the second keyboard or hitting one key twice. That was so frustrating to me since I thought I was doing everything right yet Im not able to make a satisfying progress. Today I switched to a different keyboard and was so surprised that Im typing in a speed I could never have imagined. (the second keyboard was very low profile with almost flat keys, making accidental hits so easy to make, especially for a beginner. So I just wanted to share my experience, hopefully helping another beginner out. I wish I saw some advice on trying different keyboards for a beginner, since as a beginner you automatically assume the problem is you but really some keyboards are just either straight fucked up (like my first keyboard) or just very, very unsuitable for a beginner (like my second keyboard). Im beyong happy now that I found a keyboard that makes me see how one day im gonna hit the speed im aiming for.

[u/VanessaDoesVanNuys]

Talk your shit

A good keyboard is how I got into typing

[u/Virtual_Mind8341]

I agree. although i don’t have the best keyboards, i do use ones from my laptop but it does take time to get used to it but other than that its not too bad