Okay, so I did upgrade to a wireless phone with a QWERTY keypad, and now I’m confused.

“Typing” on a tiny QWERTY with one’s thumbs is entirely different than typing with two hands positioned on the home row on a computer keyboard…and it’s way, WAY different than text messaging on an alpha-numeric keypad.

I’m actually texting considerably slower than before.

As I said in the related previous post, I don’t actually text that much, but my daughter is noticing that it takes me longer to respond to her messages.

I’m seriously wondering whether I will be able to master muscle memory on a miniature QWERTY the way I mastered it in on a typewriter in typing class. Obviously, true typing-by-touch won’t be possible, so muscle memory will be about two digits — probably my thumbs — rather than ten, as when typing at a computer.

Truth be told, I’m already giggling about what my middle schooler will be saying when she tries to text Liz, the youth pastor’s wife, on this thing. They text one another a lot; I’ll bet she gets exasperated since she and I are both great standard keyboard typists. Can people like us cope with a miniature QWERTY text-messaging phone?

Verizon gives me 15 days to change my mind…I hope my brain can figure this one out.

© Alexa Lopez 2008