Wanna Type Faster? Meet a Buzzy New Keyboard 想要打字打得快? 快來看看新的蜂窩狀鍵盤！
When Ray McEnaney types, he’s confident it’s the
most efficient way possible. But it’s not typing school that’s given him this
feeling. It’s his keyboard.
當Ray McEnaney打字時，他很有自信這是最有效率的方法，但是不是因為打字學校讓他有這樣的想法，是他的鍵盤。
Frustrated with the limitations of the traditional
QWERTY layout, McEnaney spent the last decade designing a new one. Considering
that the universal key arrangement was designed in the typewriter age
— patented in 1878 — an alternative seems due. This one’s inspired by a bee.
他受到傳統QWERTY鍵盤版面設計的限制挫折，McEnaney花了十年設計一個新的，普遍認為一般的鍵盤按鍵安排是在打字機的時代設計出來的，並在1878年獲得專利，似乎是時候研發新的替代方案了，這個是受到一隻蜜蜂的啟發。
McEnaney wasn’t satisfied with other typing
options people turn to — the most prominent being Dvorak, which aims to
minimize how far the fingers travel and reduce fatigue. He thought the learning
curve was too great: Users need to seriously commit to
becoming proficient.
McEnaney並不滿足於其他按鍵排序的選擇，人們偏好使用最多人使用的德沃夏克鍵盤，設計是針對將伸手指的距離最小化，減少疲勞，他認為(德沃夏克鍵盤)很難學習(經驗學習曲線大)，使用者需要認真投入才能熟練。
That’s how we get to the BeeRaider, his
oddly shaped keyboard that resembles a bee in flight, with two “wings” of keys
arranged on either side of a radial center. It’s a buzzy concept: The layout is
larger, with the keys you need most at the center (which gives you less
fatigue, McEnaney says). Keys that he considers “more useless” — including
Q, K and X — are placed farther away.
那就是我們知道的BeeRaider鍵盤，他的奇怪形狀鍵盤代表一隻正在飛行的蜜蜂，有兩隻翅膀，安排在放射狀中心的兩旁，這是一個蜜蜂的設計概念：版面設計比較大，你最常需要用的按鍵都在中間，（McEnaney表示會讓你比較不累）他認為最不常用的按鍵有Q、K和X都被放在最遠的邊邊。
He promises that anyone can become a capable
BeeRaider typist in 20 minutes. The secret? The key position and the related
mnemonic learning tools, through which you practice typing phrases like “I
hate waste excess” and “Just before dawn starts.”
他保證任何人都可以在20分鐘內成為會打BeeRaider鍵盤的使用者，秘密是？按鍵的位子和記憶學習工具，透過你練習打字的片語像是「我討厭多餘的浪費」和「在天剛亮之前」
It’s a little weird to type in such a fashion, but
I was surprised at how natural it felt after five minutes, my fingers somehow
finding the letters they needed. Having the alpha characters — the keys used
most often — grouped together really helped memory retention as well.
用這麼前衛的鍵盤打字會覺得有點怪，但我很驚訝，在五分鐘之後我打得有多自然，我的手指不知道怎麼找得到需要的字母，將最常使用的字母數字字符按鍵放在一起真的也可以幫助記憶保留。
But Kristy
Snyder, a cognition and cognitive neuroscience researcher at Vanderbilt
University isn’t sure that keyboard layout can affect typing speeds. She’s been
experimenting with typists’ memories of their keyboard, and she found that most
can only identify half the keys they use daily.
但一位Vanderbilt大學的認知和認知神經科學研究家Kristy Snyder並不能確定鍵盤的版面設計會影響打字速度，她實驗過打字者對鍵盤的記憶，而她發現大部分的人都只能辨別出一半日常生活所使用的按鍵。
“We think that it’s an implicit knowledge of where
the fingers go; the motor system learns where the keys are, and that’s how you
learn to type,” she says.
「我們認為這是手指移動的方向是內隱知識，運動系統學習鍵盤在哪裡，這就是你學怎麼打字的方法｣她說。
She found that using Dvorak and QWERTY layouts were
unconnected to retention, “suggesting
that typists know little about key locations on the keyboard, whether they are exposed to the keyboard for two hours or 12 years,”
she says.
她發現使用德沃夏克鍵盤和QWERTY版面設計對記憶保留沒有關聯，「假設打字者知道一點點鍵盤上按鍵的位置，不論他們是用兩小時還是用十二年」她表示。
This makes the likelihood of the
BeeRaider taking off more plausible; if people have no intrinsic recollection
of keys, they should be open to a new way of working. “Using a new system could
be better than QWERTY,” Snyder says, but having to change key mapping
could be difficult.
這讓BeeRaider更有可能大受歡迎，如果人們本身沒有鍵盤按鍵的記憶，它們可能會創造一個新的運作方式，「使用一個可能比QWERTY更好的新系統」Snyder說，但是必須改變按鍵的安排可能會有點困難。
If you’re up for the challenge, the
BeeRaider is available for preorders at $112.49, and you can choose between the
optimized layout or the radial QWERTY design.
如果你準備好接受挑戰，BeeRaider可以用112.49美元預購，而且你可以在最佳化的版面設計或是放射狀的QWERTY設計兩種之間做選擇。
Mobile users can try
BeeRaider’s Android app ($1.92), though it’s somewhat tricky to use on small
screens. All in the name of being able to tap out “The quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog” at superspeeds.
手機行動裝置使用者可以試試看BeeRaider的安卓系統app(1.92美元)，雖然這在小螢幕上有一點難用；然而這一切的最終目的都是為了要能夠以超級快的速度打出「The
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.」(註一)。
(註一) The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.是英文中知名的全字母句。
