There is something about the daytime that just tends to make it unconducive to work for me. Maybe it’s the sun making it all hot and groggy (especially in the summer months). Or maybe it’s because of mealtimes (have you ever tried getting stuff done after a huge lunch? Ugh…). Or maybe it’s because there are less distractions in the night-time? I’m not entirely sure what it is. Maybe it’s just that when I start working on something at 11:00 PM and am well-rested, it just feels good because I know I have a huge block of time where I can presumably focus on nothing except doing whatever it is that I need to get done.
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On an unrelated note, when it comes to typing (as with DDR, Beatmania, GH, etc, but more so with typing) it pays to be adaptable. There are never any 100% tried and true rules that will give you optimal speed, and using “proper” touch-typing techniques every single time will only slow you down. I don’t think I’ve ever hit the ‘P’ key with my right finger in qwerty, for example. And you have to learn alternative fingerings. Like when I type the word “right” in qwerty I use middle finger for ‘R’. Actually I do that for the word “for” as well.
With alternative keyboard layouts like colemak and dvorak, such “tricks” are less necessary, but still useful. Right now I’m trying to devise a system for handling the Shift key. I decided early on that there’s no way I could use anything other than my right thumb for the space bar (at first I was trying to do things like type the space with the opposite hand of whatever letter came before, but quickly realized that it wasn’t worth it at all), but I know I’m a little more adaptable with shift. I think for qwerty I used to use right shift exclusively, but I’m thinking that might not be optimal. Granted my right hand is more nimble and so it can deal with more stretching and alternative fingerings, but there are some words which seem to lend themselves more to using left shift. Like the word “Like” (Ulnk in qwerty). However there are other words which lend themselves to right shift, like “Haruhi” (Hasihl in qwerty). The advantage of using same hand shift in Haruhi is that it’s better than using your left pinky for both shift and then ‘a’ (slow!). Also same hand shift seems easier to coordinate (kind of like wavedashing with R instead of L). But sometimes it causes undesirable stretching (as in “Like”). And “SOS Brigade” (D:D Bsltagk in qwerty) is just REALLY awkward to type with left shift. Also, typing in all caps seems a lot easier with right shift.
I think as a general rule I should stick to right shift, unless I learn a common word or trigram that deserves left shift. For example, typing “I” is a lot easier with left shift. So we’ll see how that goes.
