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~tetris

Ah yeah, I love vimium in the browser. At first it was overwhelming with the link jumping options, but I got used to it.

"Banish the Rodent!" is the motto, although the rodent has been said to be much faster compared to keybinding operations, though keybinders are said to believe that the keyboard is faster.

From a 1989 Apple study:

> We've done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:
> 
> * Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
> * The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

source: https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

and this was later backed up by a 2010 paper on hierarchical menu items:

http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sjost/csc423/examples/anova/efficiency.pdf

(see Figure1)

Regardless, I try to use key-bindings for everything if I can. It just looks cooler ;-)

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~inquiry wrote:

> "Banish the Rodent!" is the motto, although therodent
> has been said to be much faster compared tokeybinding
> operations, though keybinders are saidto believe
> that the keyboard is faster.

I don't care so much about speed as I do about (1) minimalism of effort and (2) not feeling like a "ninny" for being slavishly obedient to The Religion of Point and Click, which feels so demeaning to me... so "but that's what people that don't know shit about what leveraging a computer really means do"....