Switching to Dvorak
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I'm thinking of making the switch to the Dvorak layout. Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed, partly to see if it's more comfortable. I've read plenty by people who've made the switch, and plenty by people who think it's not worth their time. Is there anyone here who has put some serious effort into learning to touch type on Dvorak, but then switched back to querty? What was your reasoning for switching back?
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I'm thinking of making the switch to the Dvorak layout. Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed, partly to see if it's more comfortable. I've read plenty by people who've made the switch, and plenty by people who think it's not worth their time. Is there anyone here who has put some serious effort into learning to touch type on Dvorak, but then switched back to querty? What was your reasoning for switching back?
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I'm thinking of making the switch to the Dvorak layout. Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed, partly to see if it's more comfortable. I've read plenty by people who've made the switch, and plenty by people who think it's not worth their time. Is there anyone here who has put some serious effort into learning to touch type on Dvorak, but then switched back to querty? What was your reasoning for switching back?
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Jeremy Hutchinson wrote:
switched back to querty?
I have never seen a QUERTY keyboard, is that a regional thing? ;P
I guess that should have been QUUERTY...
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A guy I went to school with used dvorak setting with qwerty. He used it fine but it ticked the rest of the team off as if there was an issue with his system and we had to assist we would sit down androiweuypowhg Then look at him like, "ahhh am I drunk or is your keyboard elphanted up?"
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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I'm thinking of making the switch to the Dvorak layout. Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed, partly to see if it's more comfortable. I've read plenty by people who've made the switch, and plenty by people who think it's not worth their time. Is there anyone here who has put some serious effort into learning to touch type on Dvorak, but then switched back to querty? What was your reasoning for switching back?
I'm trying right now. Have been for the last month. I picked up on the letter locations pretty quickly, but have reached a plateau with my typing speed. It's far from what I type with QEWRTY (try spelling that on a Dvorak keyboard. It's about a third of what I used to do. I'm real close to switching back but keep telling myself that I'll get better or that typing slower allows me to think more about what I'm saying.I haven't found it to be beneficial yet. I even rearranged the keys on my keyboard to help. Windows does make it very easy to switch back and forth. This is just my experience. I think it would have been better to start off on this keyboard 20 years ago instead of proving you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
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I'm thinking of making the switch to the Dvorak layout. Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed, partly to see if it's more comfortable. I've read plenty by people who've made the switch, and plenty by people who think it's not worth their time. Is there anyone here who has put some serious effort into learning to touch type on Dvorak, but then switched back to querty? What was your reasoning for switching back?
Jeremy Hutchinson wrote:
Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed,
Some reading material. http://dvorak.mwbrooks.com/dissent.html[^] http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html[^] http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors[^]
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I'm thinking of making the switch to the Dvorak layout. Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed, partly to see if it's more comfortable. I've read plenty by people who've made the switch, and plenty by people who think it's not worth their time. Is there anyone here who has put some serious effort into learning to touch type on Dvorak, but then switched back to querty? What was your reasoning for switching back?
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I'm thinking of making the switch to the Dvorak layout. Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed, partly to see if it's more comfortable. I've read plenty by people who've made the switch, and plenty by people who think it's not worth their time. Is there anyone here who has put some serious effort into learning to touch type on Dvorak, but then switched back to querty? What was your reasoning for switching back?
Good luck with that... I would suspect that if you aren't a fast typist, or are a hunt-and-peck two finger typist, switching to a different layout wouldn't be too hard with some practice. Personally, I'm not sure I a) could switch or b) would want to, as I type 90wpm on a standard qwerty keyboard...
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I'm thinking of making the switch to the Dvorak layout. Partly to see if I can increase my typing speed, partly to see if it's more comfortable. I've read plenty by people who've made the switch, and plenty by people who think it's not worth their time. Is there anyone here who has put some serious effort into learning to touch type on Dvorak, but then switched back to querty? What was your reasoning for switching back?
A friend of mine did it for about 2 years. He stopped because it made using anyone elses computer a massive cognitive dissonance attack.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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A guy I went to school with used dvorak setting with qwerty. He used it fine but it ticked the rest of the team off as if there was an issue with his system and we had to assist we would sit down androiweuypowhg Then look at him like, "ahhh am I drunk or is your keyboard elphanted up?"
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
I can imagine. I mouse left handed; and until I bought a mouse with hardware reversed buttons I'd drive anyone in corporate IT bonkers when they remoted into my machine since the windows setting I used also swapped the left/right buttons on their virtual mouse. Fortunately that's no longer an issue and if someone needs to sit down in front of my PC I can just plug in a right handed mouse and give them that to use.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt