Hello. Hi. Welcome to the office, Olympic Stephen.
We are going to be testing you on your ability to adapt to the most efficient keyboard layout.
On the wheel in front of you, there are six different options. You're going to spin the wheel and you're going to be given one at random.
There's a phrase that is on the screen in front of you and you are going to have to
type that phrase with the highest accuracy and speed that you possibly can.
You can go ahead and spin the wheel and then we will give you your keyboard.
You got workman, Dvorak, Capewell.
You will not be spinning the wheel because I have been made aware that you actually use
one of the alternate keyboards that we would be testing. I use Colmac and the reason I use it is because I used to have really bad RSI
in my arms, repetitive strain injury. So really, I just switched over to it along with a couple other things,
like getting a better ergonomic layout for my desk just to try to help out with the pain.
You are going to be using the evolved keyboard layout.
There is only one left. So you can spin the wheel for fun, but there's, you know, there you go.
So you are going to be using the Colmac format.
Some of the layers are in the same spot, which is nice,
but I feel like that would give me a false sense of security. I would love to know about Capewell.
Okay, what the hell is this?
Oh, okay. So it's a spinoff of Dvorak and this is the basically final iteration of the Capewell layout.
It was created in 2005.
Okay. So the main point of this keyboard is not having to move your hands as much in average typing.
Okay. Everything's shuffled. I mean, this kind of makes sense, right?
You would have your vowels on the home row on the left side, and then you'd have S, T, R, N on the other side, right?
For efficiency. I'm going to suck at this. I was going to say it looks like a regular keyboard and then oh, the letter somewhere else.
Actually, back in the day, I used to do Dvorak as well. Okay. And then I gave up on it because I thought it was really stupid.
On your mark, get set, I forgot where all the keys are.
Go. Man, I swear I'm actually really fast at typing.
This is humbling. Oh, I made a typo. I'm just going to ignore that because it was all the way at the beginning of the word.
Oh my God, that's so easy. Oh my God.
Capitals count. So this one being high is like just staring at something that should make sense to you,
and it just doesn't. Like, I just can't comprehend what I'm looking at.
I feel like I'm on drugs. This is no good. This is really difficult.
It's like treasure hunting. I haven't had to hunt in packs since I was like 10 years old.
Highly accurate. We're going for the accuracy approach.
Going that keyboard lane. The lane has begun.
My eyes wanted to go where I expected the keys to be at, and then it's just like not there.
I think like once you sort of like get the sense of where things are,
you can get used to it like pretty quickly.
Famous last words. Oh, this is terrible.
You guys are tough. You guys suck.
I don't like it at all. I kind of get it though. Like E is, it's common as hell, and it's like right there.
The RGB is distracting me. It's like putting me in like a trance.
Where's the F key? What do you mean I'm here typo?
I did not make it typo. You're buying. Did you try this thing?
Did I? Did you? I had to make them all. I thought it would be easy and fun.
No, we're just all stressed. Anything that is throw you off in particular so far?
Yeah, the layout. It's like just putting my brain in overdrive.
It's like there's this weird pressure to go fast, but at the same time I don't know what I'm doing.
I like the use of the caps lock. You're the only person that's done that so far.
Oh yeah, I only do caps lock. Love it. Yeah, I only do caps lock.
I try to force myself to do like a shift, but I just can't adapt to that because like
when I type like Mandarin, I don't really use caps lock.
So I never build up. I feel like if I look for a layer too long, I start to just space out.
I'm just like, I don't know what I'm looking at. I feel like my like older family members right now.
This is what it must feel like just to look at a keyboard for the very first time.
Exactly.
Where's the P? I don't know. Oh, thanks.
Together. I'll take that. Oh, there's a comment. Together. All right.
Do it like NCIX. Oh, I hate it.
I hate it so much. Next I get into try typing Chinese.
So basically it's supposed to be like the new Dvorak.
And the thing about evolution is sometimes they evolve and then they die.
Yeah, a lot of these did. Evolving off of Dvorak was a good idea because Dvorak itself is not.
It's also from the 1930s. Okay, that would make sense.
Like so evolved was I think 2004.
Bro, I'm present. Okay, take a deep breath.
This will all go away. See, I can't even, I can't even type while I'm talking.
It's literally taking up too much focus. I feel like I'm playing whack-a-mole.
I'm like looking, I'm looking, oh, there. Wait, so all the other people use like 10 minutes to type this?
Yeah. Okay, I'm going to beat them.
I love the commitment. It doesn't really make any sense.
The sentence? No. The layout. No, I'm just saying the layout.
All the layout of the keyboard. I was like, the sentence is no, they're different words.
We're back into ASMR mode. Just whispering and key clicking.
Everybody resorts to ASMR.
Pizzazz is supposed to be the hardest word to type on an alternate keyboard.
Here we go. Pizzazz. Let's go. P. I. Oh no.
Hey, there we go. It almost feels like I don't understand English,
and I'm just looking for a symbol to like match that symbol.
What's interesting is Comac is officially supported like out of the box on macOS,
but it's not for Windows. And it's also supported for Linux.
Okay, I'm almost there. We're almost there. Three more, three more. I can't even see your time.
K, what's the f***ing K with E? Explain player.
Can God explain for A, X, P? Give me P, L, A, I, N.
Are these like actual coherent sentences or am I typing random words?
Random words. Okay, great. If I already bought this keyboard and spent $200 on this keyboard
and I don't like the layout, what should I do? Should I just throw it away?
I mean, I just ripped the keys out and I put them back in in the right order.
Oh, so we can map it. Yeah. All right, good. Yeah, I mapped all of these.
Good, good, good. I'm a little used to touch typing like this because whenever I use someone else's keyboard, I basically have to do this.
My brain has completely forgotten how QWERTY works. There we go.
Double digits, baby. Double digits. Let's go.
That's what we like. 93% accuracy.
Okay. Took me six minutes, 48 seconds. God, that was almost seven minutes.
Yeah. Holy. Seven.
All right, 10 minutes. So somewhere 10 seems to be like a pretty average time.
You're not in first place though. I'm not surprised. I fully expect to be in like not a good spot for this at all.
10 minutes, 90% accuracy average words per minute was five.
That's actually pretty on average. There we go.
Six. Six words per minute. Okay. So pretty on like the bell curve where everybody sat.
Eight words per minute. You are in second place.
Who's first? Ten. Not bad. You are currently the, no, you're the winner at this point
because you have highest words per minute. Accuracy and time.
Nice. This was humbling and I didn't, I didn't like this at all.
I'm sorry that the keyboard hurt your feelings. It's okay. I mean, I don't, I don't code.
So I don't think this has any advantage to me. You know, personally, I just use Siri
to just speech to text everything.
Which means that most of my typing is incoherent anyways.
So this was kind of an improvement. Just far less convenient.
I hate it every second of this. Okay. I only did it for already.
This is like, I don't, yeah. I was born in the right generation.
I can't imagine using this every day at work. I would, I would pull all of my hair out.
Classic. 1930s. That's the people who use this apparently.
Glad I wasn't born yet.
Wasn't born yet? 1930s?
I wasn't born yet. Oh, I guess we're, yeah. How old do you think I am? I don't know.
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