Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:35:52 +0000
Anthony Campbell <ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 06 Jan 2012, Dan Serban wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:39:03 -0800
"Weaver" <weaver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello all.
I've been interested in this subject for some time, because of the
greater typing speed potential and lowr incidence of RSI and have
even delayed moving from two finger typing with an idea of
implementing a Dvorak keyboard into the system.

While I don't want to start a flame war, I'd suggest having a look at
the colemak layout as well. This has some advantages (I feel) over
Dvorak. Then again, it may all boil down to personal preference.

http://colemak.com



That site is down at present.

My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of
typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist on the
QWERTY keyboard?



Well, I hope the site has become available to you again since the original
message. There, you can see the layout that colemak provides, it's close
to Qwerty and provides some pros (maybe some cons) to the layout. While I
do admit that it is quite aggravating to learn a new layout; IMHO it has
paid off for me. I've learned to effectively touch type, and I feel that
my comfort level is certainly higher. I've never been a speedy typer so I
cannot add that to the advantages. Though I do find that I make much fewer
mistakes and my fingers definitely do not travel as far as I felt that they
used to using Qwerty.

I suggest you print out whatever layout you ever decide to go
with, if you so decide.. then at least you will be able to enter your
passwords without too much frustration.

If you feel that you have reasons to switch I suggest you give it a shot,
otherwise, don't simply add a layer of frustration to your daily routine
until you are convinced this is the way to go.


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