Keyboard Sounds

hmmm...
does the sound we make typing on the keyboard differ from letter to letter? Or at least for typewriters is that the case? Because my spacebar makes a different sound from my caps-lock. Maybe even for phone pads.

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i'm gonna research this and get an ignobel for it. YAH GOH IGNOBELL GOH GOH!!!!

>>17
It exists in that it's possible to create it on your own.  They don't SELL keyboards that have it (seriously, Dvorak keyboards hard enough to find- just try making a more-obscure replacement.

As for my two examples, "a" should really be under the third finger, moving the rest of the vowels according to frequency and travel.perhaps moving the fifth above the third, rather than past the second (taking advantage of the speed and length of the third finger).  August Dvorak's design logic was good, but his implementation hasn't aged properly, and many letter frequencies have changed since then.  As for "s," I'd say make the "th" chord the 43 combination of the right hand ("t" is rather common, after all!) and place the "s" at the second finger rather than the fifth.  This creates other moves, some improvements, some rather neutral.  Notably, at this point I'd elect to keep his bottom row the same, though probably rearrange things a little to take better advantage of fast fingers.

If you want to play around with things like key layout, you can do this with xmodmap.  I think there're more robust (read: well documented) solutions, but I'm tired at the moment.