Earlier today, Daniel and I got on the subject of typing efficiency, or lack there of. He mentioned that there was a good reason that he hadn't built a "send" button into his chat room software. Here's the log:
Daniel: i did have a reason for leaving it off originally though
Danielle: Which was?
Daniel: trying to break peoples in using "inefficient" methods... like someone using keyboard for typing but then taking hands off keyboard and then manipulating the mouse to click the send button when all they had to do was press ENTER
Daniel: its even worse with web browsing...
Daniel: people will type the address in but use the mouse to click Go
Daniel: and my pet peeve, even when someone knows the exact website URL of a site, they will type it into a search engine like google or yahoo, rather than just type it into the URL box
Danielle: It's a good point, I never thought of it like that
Daniel: like why are the searching around when they have the exact address
Danielle: You know what though?
Daniel: people type http://www.whatever.com into google rather than just type it in 1 inch higher in the URL box
Daniel: and advertisers get charged each time
Daniel: whats that?
Danielle: I only use the button if I'm using Dragon
Danielle: Because it takes longer for me to say "
Danielle: press enter key than it does "send"
Daniel: yep, thats something i had not considered
Danielle: In that case, using the enter key is less efficient than using send
Daniel: yep
Danielle: I am an incredibly efficient when I can use Dragon, Which is why I was so excited when I discovered that your site will so incredibly user-friendly when it came to using Dragon!
Danielle: So, how did you discover that we were all so inefficient when it came to typing?
Danielle: By accident, or something you've been watching over time?
Daniel: watching people
Daniel:
Danielle: yeah, I suppose that would prove a point! Grin
Daniel: hehe
Danielle: You know what you've done, don't you?
Daniel: what?
Danielle: You've planted this new seed in my head, so now every time I see somebody typing I'm going to be watching to see if they actually use the enter key! LOL
Daniel: lol
Danielle: And I'm also going to be watching to see whether or not they type exact addresses into search engines! LOL
Daniel: gotta teach one person at a time
Danielle: I suppose, I just had never thought of the logistics of typing, and how inefficient most of us probably are
Daniel: its like those monkeys in Indonesia that wash their fruit before eating it. monkey see, monkey do
Danielle: If I'm not using NaturallySpeaking though, I never use the button, because my typing is already slow enough, I don't need to make it any slower by having to take the time to move the mouse over the send button, and click
Are any of you inefficient typers??? 