Keyboard or mouse
 

Ok, this is a very simple question that I was pondering while trying to get to sleep:

If you could only utilize one of the two standard methods for controlling your computer, which one would it be?
Would you sacrifice selection speed (mouse) for typing speed(keyboard)?
Or would you sacrifice your writing ability to be able to move around the internet/computer better?

I personally would go with sacrificing the mouse. It would frustrate me to no end if I had to type via that retarded keyboard available in the "Accessibility" folder.

Keyboard. You can still navigate your way around a PC without a mouse.
Technically you can input data without a keyboard but come on, it's a whore to use something like the on screen keyboard.
(this post was made only using the keyboard in order to demonstrate)

I'll take the mouse, it gets too much of a work out to give up.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4607/mouse0026gw.jpg

How can I MS Paint without that? Some kind of trackball taped to a barrel of gerkins? No thanks. And I'll just go out and get one of those space age voice recognition things to replace the keyboard.

"Hello Gamingforce"
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I'd go with the mouse, but considering how very annoying it'd be to 'type' onscreen to form sentences, I'm going for the keyboard with touchpad (if any exists).

I have a few pens, an empty glass and a WHOLE box of staples, if only Macgyver were here to help. :(

Keyboard, hands down. I use it for almost everything but gaming anyway. I can navigate my programs almost as quickly with Tab as I can with a mouse, and I do 95% of my stuff in a console anyways.

I have a crappy mouse anyways so I'd go without that. I can't be on the internet without IMing anyways and I'll be damned if I type with the mouse.

Does anyone else think typing with a mouse would be pretty neat?
There could be a button to press and hold while you alternate clicking the left and right mousee buttons. This would produce Morse code which would be translated into letters.
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I'd settle with the keyboard anytime. I use my keyboard for controlling things a hell of alot more than the mouse. With the ammount of keyboard shortcuts i use, i could get by quite easily without a mouse.

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I do a fair level of PC gaming, but I'd choose the keyboard, as I'm much more proficient with it anyway. With navigating menusand other common applications, it's just easier to get around using the keyboard for me. The mouse is useful in just some cases, e.g. drawing, click hard-to-get-to links in browsers, and selecting "tricky" sets of files in a file browser. On my laptop, where I rarely do gaming, I pretty much only use the keyboard.

I don't care - I use both. My mouse pisses me off sometimes so I just tab around til I get to the desired link. Lately I've been using ctrl+V to paste things I copy with the mouse. For PC games like FFXI and Morrowind, I use the keyboard primary, and the mouse for viewing in different directions.
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I could do fine with just a keyboard. I tend to use shortcuts rather than using the mouse anyway, and I'd also prefer keeping the ability to type easily.

Keyboard probably, it feels way better to rest your hands and use the keyboard than just using one hand on the mouse. It could get a little hard doing graphics with only a keyboard though.

I choose keyboard. I can use my computer quite well with one, actually. I imagine using the mouse to type involves one of those accessibility keyboards on your screen. You might now where the keys are but you'd be able to hit them far less rapidly.

Now of course it's probably impossible to use a program like Photoshop with just a keyboard.

i'm going to go invent a tablet with a keyboard attach to it.

:p id go with the keyboard.
if i had to click a digital keyboard on my screen id go crazy.

I've been without a mouse for about a month... it's not pretty but it can be done. I've also been without a keyboard once and, believe me, it's impossible to work with just a mouse. After 3 days without a keyboard I sold some CDs and bought a new one. If you want to try use the accessibility keyboard for just one normal day. I can assure you, 99% of you won't stand it.

Keyboard. When my sister and I were younger, our dad punished us for negligent behavior by taking the mouse to our family computer away. He was incredulous when he came back and saw us using the computer anyway with no difficulty.
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Dang, you had to sell some CDs just to get a keyboard? I bought a brand spanking new Logitec one from Newegg for a total of 8 dollars, including shipping.

I would probably go with sacrificing the mouse as well. I was without a keyboard for a week and all I could use was the onscreen keyboard. It was miserable. Plus you can select objects on pages or on your desktop with the keyboard as well (instead of clicking), so the mouse isn't really needed in some cases. And there are so many useful shortcut commands that can be used on a keyboard... my most used being Ctrl+Alt+Del. :B

lol.. Nicely done.

I say, forget the mouse and the keyboard, let's use touch screens! Solve both problems at once.. Just touch, press and there you go!

Could you imagine using a touchscreen for an FPS game.. Even those lil hacker guys would suffer! Touch their little head and they die! BWAHAHHAHA

Not to mention, better control when doing graphic work in 3D, just touch and drag.. Much easier!!!!

Then you have your menu commands on the bottom or side of the screen.. THIS WOULD ROCK! Someoen needs to make this affordable to the general public!

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I'd get rid of my mouse. Infact, I think they keyboard can be a lot faster in some cases. For example.

I Open up my computer, and click once inside. Now, I don't even touch the mouse. I know that the file I want to get to is C:>Videos>Anime>Cowboy Bebop>15.ogm.

If I know the contents of my computer well, and things are organized, all I have to do is press [C][Enter][vi][Enter][an][Enter][cow][Enter][15][Enter]. There. I just sifted through 4 subdirectorys surrounded by hundreds of files and folders, and opened my desired file in about 4 seconds. If I did that with the mouse, I'd have to look around for folder "Videos", find it, then find folder "Anime", etc etc.

Often times I use just the keyboard when I'm navigating the harddrive.

My hand would NEVER forgive me if I typed a whole essay with a mouse, especially since I already have a bad habit of strangling pencils when I write with them. Throw on my piano-playing, clarinet-playing, and gaming, and my hand would probably end up bashing my head open on a table with whatever strength it has left.

Keyboards rock, period.

I'm gonna have to go with the mouse. I just couldn't see browsing the internet without it, and since I can't type anyway (hunt and pecker right here!) it wouldn't be that bad using a virtual keyboard.

I'd give up the mouse. It's a no-brainer, really. Computer users lived without the mouse for decades before it was invented.

I will retain the keyboard. The ever-handy Control-Alt-Delete is strange if you just have a mouse... Plus my cursor disappears whenever my old games malfunction, and eventually my mouse will run out of batteries. Keyboard always.

The keyboard method is my choice. I use it anyway, at least when I'm too lazy to actually sit up and move the mouse around.

I'd go with the keyboard. I can access all the programs and write whatever I need. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to post here, but I could browse it, especially if I were using Firefox, which automatically allows me to input a URL when a new tab is opened. Also, I would much rather have a mouse problem than a keyboard problem. If a keyboard doesn't register when the computer is booting, you can forget about using the computer. If the mouse doesn't register, then the keyboard is still a viable tool.

The mouse. A click will take me in my desired direction, but it wouldn't be much help when I'm on messenger, attempting to communicate with my friends. Odd thing, that would be, morse code or beep code as a form of modern communication...well not exactly odd, but in a sense, it would be conventional, but you'd have to think a good bit harder.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~azag...s/Overview.jpg
That solves all problems, its a keyboard and a mouse all in one :)

As a Linux user who is very comfortable with the command-line, I could easily give up my mouse. The keyboard, though, is almost required; the mouse is virtually useless for text input (unless you're talking about a writing tablet like in a tablet PC, but that's not a mouse) and is too limited in applications where you need alot of functionality (Blender comes to mind here, along with many games).

keyboard would have to win... you can do thing much easier... even easier than some things that mie are used for. e.g. tabs instead of clicking boxes, windows key instead of start, alt-tab to select running programmes instead of using the taskbar etc...
Tom

The keyboard, with a bit of skill can handle everyting the mouse can do.

I'd take the mouse over the keyboard primarily because FPSs just wouldn't be the same. Not to mention I think today's voice recognition software and microphone could replace the keyboard's functions.

I would have to agree with many users on the keyboard.. but perhaps..

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/prod...l_keyboard.jpg

The Virtual Keyboard

Somebody should really invent a keymourd. I'd use it. Not a touchpad or a trackball. Maybe a little pad with a stylus off to the side of your keyboard with a clicker button on the end of the stylus. AND LASERS!

hmm. im using a treo right now to post. yay for treo!

One of my rats chewed through my keyboard cable on thursday. I went out and bought a new keyboard today. (I had been using an old IBM clunker from 1984 between thursday and today.)

Of course keyboard.
I can do almost everything with a keyboard.

Mouse selection. No second thought about that. Imagine typing resumes at 6 words per minute! Besides, I don't use a mouse...I use touchpad!

No freaking way I could go without the keyboard. As many others have said, it would be a ***** to just use the mouse.

Definitely get rid of the mouse! I can live without it, but I can't type with the accessibility keyboard! And at least that way I'd save batteries (although to be fair, the batteries in my mouse only need changed after about six months...)

One could argue that in a number of circumstances it's easier and/or quicker to use the keyboard to navigate an area, using tab, etc. As such I'd take the keyboard always (I actually remember having a laptop which allowed you to control the mouse using the 'FN' and arrow keys).

I'm gonna have to go with the keyboard on this one as well. I can do pretty much everything on a keyboard that i use the mouse for anyway.

I'd give up the mouse. I'd rather learn to use the keyboard to control my comp than use a mouse to type. Too frustrating clicking the letters. bleh

Keyboard and shortcuts are the fastest way but the mouse is the easy way... it depends on the mood...

Windows was made to be fully operational off of a standard 104-key keyboard. Besides the whole Alt-this, Ctrl-that, it shouldn't be hard to adjust to for an end user.

I'd take the mouse since I don't chat much anyway.

The only thing I would nee the keyboard for would be to spam on GFF. ;_;