The Keyboard is Faster than the Mouse

While I'm not a fan of AI, as a lover of keyboards and vim, I found this to be a fun read. I occasionally try to explain the reduced friction / increased flow to people that comes with CLIs, keyboard navigation, and fast typing speeds, but I'm not sure I get it across well. So many people are quick to claim a fast typing speed is useless because typing isn't the bottleneck or whatever, but being able to type 150wpm+ means typing 100wpm is also much easier, and also that you've learned your tools well and can get around with little thought. It's just easiest to quantify raw typing speed, it's not the whole picture. I wasn't aware of the specific research covered in the article, but it kinda aligns with how I already felt, so it's cool to read about.

My life is split between Emacs (no mouse usage at all), terminals (no mouse usage at all except the occasional copy/paste... but typically I'll use commands for this, including a nice "pipe into Emacs" pipe I found online) and then browsers.

Ah, browsers. I didn't bother (yet?) trying to set up a mouseless browser experience because the Web was built by people who obviously love their dear mouses (apparently the plural of mouse is either mice or mouses). And I didn't bother trying to integrate my browser into Emacs either. I'm not that rad.

So I'm in two worlds at once: the mouse world when browsing and the keyboard-only world when terminal'ing / Emacs'ing.