{"id":272,"date":"2009-08-12T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2017-09-29T09:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:19:55","slug":"does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Das Keyboard Really Increase Your Typing Speed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across the following article<\/a> by Shaan Kirpalani<\/a> as I was working my way through the internet. It was posted a while ago, but it still rings true. If you don’t have time to read it now, the short answer is: yes.
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\nhttp:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/chips\/das-keyboard-ultimate-doubles-typing-speed-20081022\/<\/a><\/p>\n

“After hearing about the Das Keyboard Ultimate, I found myself both impressed and slightly annoyed by the audacious keyboard. Its elegant appearance, characterless keys, and inclusion of gold plated, mechanical Cherry key switches impressed me while the notion that the marketplace has room for this kind of high-end, geekphernalia got my eyes rolling. Immediately, I equivocated it to the black MacBook or the newest golf driver: the apex of consumerism. The Das was however, very well received by the tech press\u2013even winning the Computer Times\u2019 Editors\u2019 Choice Keyboard Award”…read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Shaan for the post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out this posting about how the Das Keyboard Ultimate helps you increase your typing speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[31,33,32,34],"yoast_head":"\nDoes the Das Keyboard Really Increase Your Typing Speed? - Das Keyboard Mechanical Keyboard Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does the Das Keyboard Really Increase Your Typing Speed? - Das Keyboard Mechanical Keyboard Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Check out this posting about how the Das Keyboard Ultimate helps you increase your typing speed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Das Keyboard Mechanical Keyboard Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DasKeyboard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-08-12T12:00:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-09-29T15:19:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HBO-Silicon-Valley-Das-Keyboard.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"579\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"TheDas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@DasKeyboard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@DasKeyboard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"TheDas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"TheDas\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/cd6ac66b50133f6ae311e4d8f1d794cd\"},\"headline\":\"Does the Das Keyboard Really Increase Your Typing Speed?\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-08-12T12:00:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-09-29T15:19:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed\/\"},\"wordCount\":157,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"das keyboard ultimate\",\"geek.com\",\"shaan kirpalani\",\"typing speed\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Typing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.daskeyboard.com\/blog\/does-the-das-keyboard-really-increase-your-typing-speed\/\",\"name\":\"Does the Das Keyboard Really Increase Your Typing Speed? 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