Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up?

[Stefan Monnier]

>  you gain practice at using Emacs, you will find that typing these Control
>  characters is faster than typing the arrow keys (because you do not
>  have to move your hands away from touch-typing position).  Third,

Note that faster is not always better.
After all, if you care about speed, you clearly shouldn't use qwerty.


        Stefan