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70 | 89.74% |
| I use Dvorak. |
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7 | 8.97% |
| Something else. |
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5 | 6.41% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 78. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Tell it like it Is
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: With my cats
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I just googled QWERTY, and that keyboard is all mixed up! What is this thing with the vowels all next to each other, and they are not even in order.
The Dvorak is just as bad. Do tell- what is so special about these keyboards? Why not just one that has all the keys in the correct place--meaning, how some of us (James Ritchie, you can relate to this, I'm sure) learned to type on those wonderful old typewriters? |
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我的身分還是秘密.
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 神出鬼没像那暗夜的噩夢.
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SusanL, now I really want to see your keyboard.
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Mushroom
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: England
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Qwerty also doesn't have the vowels next to each other, which is why I wonder if you found something else. You'll know if you're using one, because starting from the top left of the letters section, the key order spells out qwerty. |
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Bowties are cool
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: In a world of my own making
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I've been touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard for over 40 years. I have no interest whatsoever in having to relearn the entire typing process just to "supposedly" gain some speed or relieve some alleged pain.
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Tell it like it Is
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: With my cats
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Now I feel really silly.
![]() ![]() This is the link that I looked at first: http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html (scroll to the bottom) But I understand this is what it looks like today: http://www.dayiwasborn.net/templates...333&PID=496162 (duh, like mine). As for Dvorak: this is the link I looked at first-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard Okay, so I guess I sue to QWERTY (in modern form, that is). |
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Tell it like it Is
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Never noticed that.
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Tell it like it Is
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Yes, I'm sure you do.
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Plot Bunny Shepherdess
Join Date: Jul 2010
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I'm QWERTY.. but like the idea of the Dvorak. Only problem is I'd probably type letters all wrong since I touchtype.
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Tell it like it Is
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我的身分還是秘密.
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 神出鬼没像那暗夜的噩夢.
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If you try to learn Dvorak, you really start to notice the advantages when you start typing words like the, noun, teeth, no, one, etc. Stuff rolls off your fingers way easier.
I'm having fun learning a new typing technique, anyway.
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New kid, be gentle!
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: China
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Colemak is even better than Dvorak!
http://colemak.com/ http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?colemak It's what I'm trying to learn at the moment. |
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New Fish; Learning About Thick Skin
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Kaufbeuren, Germany
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On Windows machines, I use a QWERTZ (German) physical keyboard (cheapest to get over here) plus a keyboard driver I devised a few years ago. It allows me to have most european and some important typographical characters readily available when typing.
Wanna look? Well, here goes … ![]() (All the red ones are dead keys, blue/purple are combinations w/ right ALT key.) I also find the NEO keyboard layout quite interesting, though I’d probably never be able to re-train for that (or Dvorak) at my age …
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Fantastic historian
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Cambridge, UK. Or 1590s London. Some days it's hard to tell.
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I started using Dvorak in 2007 after I started getting RSI. Wrists are fine now, even though I type all day for my job and then write for much of my spare time. Don't know if that's Dvorak alone, though, or the benefits of finally learning to touch-type!
As for age - FWIW, I was in my mid-forties when I started, and had only four months to master the layout before doing NaNoWriMo (which I won). This old dog loves new tricks
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figuring it all out
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: USA
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I use QWERTY just because it's standard and I type fast enough on it.
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Sploosh
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: North Texas
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I don't feel the need to switch from QWERTY. This is the only layout I've ever used, after all, and I don't have any problems with pain or discomfort. That's especially true when I have my mechanical-switch keyboard (an old Dell AT-101 - fantastic 'board for writing).
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Johannesburg South Africa
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iv never even heard of Dv@%$WTF
but I wouldnt mind trying one out. There will be a lot to unlearn
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Banned
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: The Best Place In The World...Absolute Write!!
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I use QWERTY. I tried the DVORAK once, like 9 years ago, almost 10, and I had to leave that desktop computer alone because I could not type on the keyboard the way I do on the QWERTY. Had been using QWERTY for several years and I guess I couldn't get used to it.
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kimochi warui
P&CE Ombudsman/Arbiter/Thingamajobbie
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Palo Alto, CA
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QWERTY. I type fast enough anyway, so I don't see the reason to relearn everything. Besides, it would make using computers not my own difficult.
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figuring it all out
Join Date: Sep 2010
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While I realize that not knowing what Dvorak is means I use Qwerty, I wouldn't mind a brief explanation of what Dvorak is, to save me Googling. But what I'm even more curious about is the people who selected "Something else" -- what else is there?
Do some people get their words into the computer with mental telepathy? |
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Bostonian in Baltimore via Chicago and DC
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DVORAK is designed to be as fast and take as little movement as possible, because modern keyboards don't have any parts where speed can break things. |
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Bostonian in Baltimore via Chicago and DC
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Never seen that. Looks like they swapped the U out of the home row, and replaced it with R (which seems like a good idea to me). They also moved "ST" to a more logical layout next to each other. |
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Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Entebbe, Uganda
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This zombie thread has to have one of the most gradual reawakenings in the history of AW. It's just been slowly stirring.
I learned to touchtype in high school on Qwerty. Even the minor differences in the special characters on a UK keyboard mess me up. I could learn Dvorak if I needed to, I guess, but until I need to I don't see much of a reason to.
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Have Harp Will Travel
Join Date: May 2010
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I would love to switch to Dvorak because between grad school and novel writing, I spend all my time typing. But I also have to go back and forth between home computers and campus computers, and the campus ones don't allow you to switch the keyboard layout. If there was some add-in I could carry on my USB drive to override a public computer's settings, I would switch in a heartbeat...
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New Fish; Learning About Thick Skin
Join Date: Apr 2011
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I've always used Qwerty... and I type differently, I don't use home-row. I use everything but my pinkies (poor, weak pinkies
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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I never learned to touch-type, really, but I spent 12 years learning to play the organ. When I type, my hands overlap and my fingers dance all over the place. I watch the keyboard rather than the screen.
People who touch-type marvel that I can even put together a correctly-spelled word with my style, but I've consistently tested at 48 wpm under interview conditions (and I know I type faster than that when I'm "in the groove"). I've used a QWERTY keyboard since I first started using a flea market bought Royal typewriter with a broken "A" key.
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