Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]

Post by Xorakios » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 1:31 PM UTC

kloch wrote: post #37

jerf wrote: post #19

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Probably the best thing about Dvorak (and similar layouts) is that if you want to do proper touch typing, it is quite possibly easier to learn Dvorak than to learn how to touch type QWERTY. Touch typing QWERTY is a constant uphill battle of using your willpower to force yourself to type correctly, despite the rest of your brain claiming it isn't the optimal way to type on that layout. I don't know that your brain is…

> QWERTY users naturally wander around and have their hands leave the home row and I'm not entirely convinced it's actually wrong. I think you are learning it wrong. It's not hard at all to learn QWERTY with the proper training technique. I took touch typing in High School, back in the 1980's. Even back then I knew I was going to be doing a lot of work with computers so it made sense to take it. It turned out to be t…

Post by api_or_ipa » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #172

api_or_ipa wrote: post #9

As a dvorak user, whatever increase in typing speed is mostly irrelevant, for most of us, our output isn't limited by how fast we can type, but how fast we can think. That being said, a long time ago I took an analysis of one of our code bases, mapped every character onto dvorak and qwerty keyboards to produce heatmaps, and it's startling how much less the fingers have to move on a dvorak keyboard. So if you're lazy,…

> analysis of one of our code bases, mapped every character if your code base is C, is dvorak going to help with all the [^A-Za-z]* punctuation characters? That's what slows me down.