It took some time to get used to a chicklet style keyboard after years of using the old style of keyboard. I didn't really have a technique or anything. I just kept using it until I adjusted. Now, I love this style keyboard. It also helps that both laptops had a small number pad so I didn't have to get used to a new size. Good luck!
Well, that led me up the garden path. I Googled "chicklet" and found it was a young girl. However having persisted, i now understand.
Yeah, they're pretty good. I spent my working life using keyboards from typewriters to teleprinters. They were pretty much chaff-cutters compared to a laptop keyboard. My new laptop has a tiny right-side shift lock and that's gonna give me trouble till I get used to it.
As long as I used laptop, I used blind touch, sometimes I would wake up at midnight because that's when new ideas pop up, and sit in pitch darkness and type away,but now with iPad, I gotta type only with one hand and it is a nuisance!
I often wake with ideas, especially when I'm writing. If I don't get them written down there's no way I'm gonna get back to sleep -- or to remember them next morning.
My typing - which has included on a manual and an IBM 'Golf Ball' electric typewriters as well as computers since MS-DOS and an Amstrad PCW9512, plus portable 'phones - has never improved so for me to complain about a keyboard would be a case of bad workman blaming the tools!
I can't get on with lap-tops though. Some years ago at work, I had to help catalogue a mass of technical reports, using an Excel spread-sheet and lap-top. Used to normal desk-top PCs with proper keyboards and legibly-large monitors, I found the instrument a lot easier to use by placing a ring-binder under it as a writing-slope, but it was still physically awkward.
Benedict Arnold 