Hometime!

[jack]

Woo! With the 2ⁿ[1] combination, my output matches the reference output. There was nothing inherently wrong after all, just n annoying misconfigurations. I can now go home, have some cereal for breakfast(I was going to do some shopping at lunchtime and get a sandwich, but didn't get round to it) and cook dinner for 7ish.

In other news, I type at 60 wpm when I type fast. Which is often faster then I can think. But it's not quite fair because I'm doing two fingered and I'm a bit more accurate when I look at the keyboard as well as the screen, but in real life don't have beeps to tell my when I've made an error, except when it's a big error, like misbuying a fire alarm.

[1] Not that I tried all of them. Some of the time you can tell something is wrong and eliminate up to 2^n-1 possibilities at a sroke. But sometimes different failure modes are near impossible to tell apart.

Comments

[icantcarenemore.livejournal.com]

When I'm going top speed I've been known to break 80wpm, but in such situations my brain tends to be whizzing so fast anything I write takes a lot of effort to understand =P
Do you really type with two fingers? How often do you use a keyboard?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, two fingers, left little finger for shift, and right thumb for the space bar. I use a keyboard pretty much all the time, but generally for something where typing isn't the limiting factor, like code, and emails where I need to think what I want to say.

Do you really type with two fingers?

Yeah, I thought that was pretty normal for people who learned to use a computer ad hoc; I didn't realise until I had that I would come to touch type (imperfectly) with them. Do you touch type (ie. with 8/9/10)? Were you taught?

[icantcarenemore.livejournal.com]

I do touch type, but generally a mix of 6/8. I too learnt of my own accord, which is the probable cause of my left hand dominating two thirds of the keyboard. Perhaps I learnt to a greater degree of precision and speed since I've been using computers since a very young age?
It's just that, when I picture someone typing with two fingers, I see someone inexpertly lifting their entire wrist off the keyboard/desk and plonking it down again after a moments thought.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It's just that, when I picture someone typing with two fingers, I see someone inexpertly lifting their entire wrist off the keyboard/desk and plonking it down again after a moments thought.

LOL. Wonderful description; it is so awkward when someone does that.

Amusing incident: at primary school someone had a kid's electronic thing that had a keyboard -- in alphabetical order. Typing on that made me feel slow enough...

In other news I seem to use my right little finger for 'enter' and my right ring finger for some symbols. I'd genuinely not noticed that.

The trouble was when I first used a keyboard trying to use more fingers was very tedious, and there never seemed an easy path to moving towards that, so I never learnt, and just developed from the plodding method.