Bob Breed wrote in a message to Joe Nicholson:

 BB> And why both tunnels if the mouse is the culprit?   If the right
 BB> hand had more cases of it then they may have something since most
 BB> are right handed.

 JN>  Both my original post and your reply would indicate CTS
 JN>  should be prevalent in the right hand.  The left hand
 JN>  (only) was used for CR, and the right hand operates the
 JN>  mouse.

 JN>  Has typing speed increased on computers, with keyboards
 JN>  that don't require such a hard stroke?

 BB> I suspect top speed for typing has increased quite a bit, mainly
 BB> because  you never take either hand off the keyboard.   This was
 BB> also true of the  guys who punched tape for teletype - no need to
 BB> take the hands off the  keyboard.  Many a tape puncher could do
 BB> 80wpm or so punching tape, but only   maybe 60 on a old mill.

 BB> I think the main cause is that you never move you hands off the
 BB> keyboard,  it's just hammer away hour after hour for those doing
 BB> data entry stuff. 

I think you're absolutely on to something here,  and that this is one of
the reasons why the original (from CP/M!) WordStar command keys made so
much sense,  and were so widely copied -- they don't require you to take
your hands off the keyboard,  as contrasted with programs that heavily use
the function keys...

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