Spending too much time at the bar (space).
Periodically, I look down at my keyboard to see if my collective use has changed the wear on the keys. In a way, a used keyboard is probably a little like a seashore. The people that type their fingers off day after day have the beach with the sand accumulated from millions of waves. Others who don’t use theirs much and have one that looks a lot like it did when they got it would be like the rocky cliff shoreline. Mine, it’s in between probably in the rough stone category of shoreline. Some of the keys are a little shinier than the others but it’s not as if I any of the letters are in danger of disappearing.
The spot where my thumb hits the space bar is by far the most worn spot. I see there is even some wear on the space bar where my left thumb touches it. I don’t recall ever hitting the space bar with my left thumb but I let it hang out there (it doesn’t do much else but hang out when it comes to typing).
I wonder how many times you would have to hit the space bar to wear through the plastic. I am sure someone has use the space bar enough times to wear through it. Some data entry person in a third world country that has to work six days a week, twelve hours a day and never gets a replacement keyboard. That’s probably the sort that would wear clean through.
One other fine pearl of wisdom I will leave with your today – your typing speed and accuracy decreases by at least half when you think about typing while you are typing. Maybe there is a lesson there than can be extended to other facets of my existence. Don’t over think things; just let them flow from your brain unconsciously and you will be more productive.
