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Response time was ultimately why I discarded foot pedal after going trouble of setting it up. Brain to foot response time was too long for me and it significantly degraded productivity, especially since modifier keys are meant to be pushed in sync with other keys.

Foot pedal works for music because in music you plan to push the pedal ahead of time, whereas in programming it is a snap decision and therefore requires low latency reaction time.

Not sure if it was a matter of training.



> Not sure if it was a matter of training.

Probably not. IIRC, nerve signals are actually much slower than we like to imagine, but our brains plays tricks with our memory such that we don’t percieve it.




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