{"id":18225,"date":"2017-06-23T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T18:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18225"},"modified":"2017-06-23T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T18:41:13","slug":"is-the-keyboard-faster-than-the-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/is-the-keyboard-faster-than-the-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Keyboard Faster Than the Mouse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danluu.com\/keyboard-v-mouse\/\">Dan Luu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/danluu.com\/keyboard-v-mouse\/\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asktog.com\/TOI\/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html\">The most cited AskTog page on the topic claims that they&rsquo;ve spent $50M of R&amp;D and done all kinds of studies<\/a>; the page claims that, among other things, the $50M in R&amp;D showed &ldquo;Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing&rdquo; and &ldquo;The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.&rdquo;. The claim is that this both proves that the mouse is faster than the keyboard, and explains why programmers think the keyboard is faster than the mouse even though it&rsquo;s slower. However, the result is unreproducible because &ldquo;Tog&rdquo; not only doesn&rsquo;t cite the details of the experiments, Tog doesn&rsquo;t even describe the experiments and just makes a blanket claim.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Unlike claims by either keyboard or mouse advocates, when I do experiments myself, the results are mixed. Some tasks are substantially faster if I use the keyboard and some are substantially faster if I use the mouse. Moreover, most of the results are easily predictable (when the results are similar, the prediction is that it would be hard to predict).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t realize that scrolling was so fast relative to searching (not explicitly mentioned in the blog post, but 1&#x2044;2 of the text selection task). I tend to use search to scroll to things that are offscreen, but it appears that I should consider scrolling instead when I don&rsquo;t want to drop my cursor in a specific position.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Luu: The most cited AskTog page on the topic claims that they&rsquo;ve spent $50M of R&amp;D and done all kinds of studies; the page claims that, among other things, the $50M in R&amp;D showed &ldquo;Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing&rdquo; and &ldquo;The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.&rdquo;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[423,30,1289,71],"class_list":["post-18225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-mouse","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18226,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions\/18226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}