Maybe my experience is a little different because I'm a musician, and
I play most of the woodwinds. All of them use different fingering
systems (albeit most of the ones redesigned by Boehm are similar in at
least one register), so my mind doesn't have as much trouble shifting
between dissimilar actions to accomplish the same task.
Before I talk about the frog, the datahand is by far my favorite
"keyboard". The price is prohibitive (like lots of assistive
technology), but my favorite setup of all time was data hand with a
foot operated trackball.
http://www.abilityhub.com/estore/datahand/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datahand
When I got my frogpad, one of their partners was beta-testing a really
nice typing-training app. That really seemed to help motivate me to
practice.
If I don't use the frog often (like every 6 months), I need to run
through the typing exercizes that come with the keyboard (random words
building on sets of common english constructions).
I didn't buy the Frog with the idea of typing "faster" than I can on a
qwerty keyboard. I was looking for a reasonably fast way to input text
and use the pen at the same time. It works very well for that. It's
also durable, has a small footprint, and packs tightly.
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