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Short fingers with lab. :) - Mel


Posted: Oct 18, 2010

Whenever I type lab, I slow down. My fingers are short and I have trouble reaching the number characters on the keyboard. I want to type lab fast too. Are there tricks that I can do to boost my typing when doing lab values?

TIA

:)

Small hands here too. How about switching to a compact keyboard? - Pragmatist

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Seriously. They come in different sizes, and some have all the standard outlying keys. Some even have that separate numbers pad way out in the boonies that I never use anyway.

Practice, practice, practice. Muscle memory. - Stubby fingered piano player. nm

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thats ok... my long gangly fingers get all discombobulated - trying to find the x and comma!

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maybe you could create expanders for numbers, ie., tsx for 26, or et for 18. Come up with some combination of keystrokes so you dont have to hit the numbers.

Someone posted a great idea to use small piece Velcro - to locate keys by feel. Maybe put a SM

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piece on the 1 and a piece on the 6 so your fingers can orient themselves.


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