Mousing is faster than keyboard?
I’ve always assumed the opposite, given my own proficiency with keyboard shortcuts, but Tog apparently has the proof that the cognitive overhead of having to remember a keyboard shortcut takes longer for us to compute than grabbing the mouse and executing the action by pointing and clicking. He does make a concession that two handed tasks such as selecting with the mouse while doing ctrl+c to copy are greatly improved by keycuts.
Still for some reason, I have difficulty believing that these were totally normalized to account for training (I can instantly twirk my hand into the deadly cmd+ctrl+shift+4 screencapture move :) and for the fact that there are a LOT of two handed movements; almost anything in photoshop for example, where I think the lag between selection and tool picking would totally kill my productivity. Also, since we’re on the mac; how about window selection? You can’t tell me that pressing ctrl+w to rapid fire close tabs on firefox would be slower than me moving my mouse to each tab, acquiring the little X as a target, and pressing the button. I refuse to believe it! :D Also, alt+tab anyone? I wonder how it compares to Expose…
