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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24796 Posts
October 11 2010 21:19 GMT
#41
I have this problem with my hotkeys a lot. I get used to using a certain system (3aa4dd5s6dd) etc. and can't change how I do it without a HUGE blow to performance :p
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Asdkmoga
Profile Joined May 2010
United States496 Posts
October 11 2010 21:32 GMT
#42
lol ya, 100 wpm with only using 4 fingers, and no thumbs even for space bar (both middle and pointer), terrible, i wish i learned correctly. D:
"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action and over 600 is clearly the work of an ancient Sumerian demon or some shit."
Wargizmo
Profile Joined March 2010
1237 Posts
October 11 2010 21:33 GMT
#43
On October 11 2010 19:29 micronesia wrote:
Research shows that you can't unlearn something that you've established in your brain. You just 'pave over' it. A music teacher was explaining to me that he figured out the wrong way to use his fingers on the piano when he was a kid and had to learn all over again how to position his hands. He can play correctly now but when he gets drunk enough he reverts to the old style which is way inferior :p


I think it must depend on the person. I'm a music teacher myself and I completely relearned my guitar picking technique in my 20s but have never once gone back to the old way, even when drunk. In fact if I try the old way it just feels awkward and really unnatural. My typing feels the same, I can't physically type the way I used to, I'd have to totally retrain how to do it again.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24796 Posts
October 11 2010 21:34 GMT
#44
On October 12 2010 06:33 Wargizmo wrote:
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On October 11 2010 19:29 micronesia wrote:
Research shows that you can't unlearn something that you've established in your brain. You just 'pave over' it. A music teacher was explaining to me that he figured out the wrong way to use his fingers on the piano when he was a kid and had to learn all over again how to position his hands. He can play correctly now but when he gets drunk enough he reverts to the old style which is way inferior :p


I think it must depend on the person. I'm a music teacher myself and I completely relearned my guitar picking technique in my 20s but have never once gone back to the old way, even when drunk. In fact if I try the old way it just feels awkward and really unnatural. My typing feels the same, I can't physically type the way I used to, I'd have to totally retrain how to do it again.

Yeah all of our brains definitely work differently. Everyone learns (and unlearns I suppose) differently.
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Rinrun
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada3509 Posts
October 11 2010 21:40 GMT
#45
You just have to force yourself to do it. I too type in an irregular way, and I still do.
What I did was teach my left hand to type from home row (to boost my Hotkey accuracy), and now I can type from homerow with all four fingers being used.

Now for my right hand... its like random with 4 fingers lol. I'll get to it some day.
MBC/Liquid/TSM always.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11567 Posts
October 11 2010 21:42 GMT
#46
physical trauma should do the trick
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