As a #Dvorak typist, I need to make sure when I create a hyphenated passphrase, that the hyphen doesn't immediately follow the letter "s". Typing "s-" is incredibly annoying.
@atoponce interesting, I've never found nor used any DVORAK before.
@ademalsasa I've been typing in the Dvorak layout since ~2005 and have never regretted it.
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I recently decided to learn colemak, after switching to dvorak around 2017ish.
Pain, I can barely type dvorak anymore. Probably could go back after an hour or so, and I still use it on my fone (because still no FOSS handwriting recognition keyboard).
Colemak is actually kinda cool, I think having r on the home row is very good. But then it's kinda messy overall.
Hey, my friend @Zergling_man, long time no chat. Welcome to DVORAK thread. Thanks for adding your experience!
I'd like to see what a child brought up on dvorak can do.
@Zergling_man @kazriko @atoponce you all made me research a bit about DVORAK.
And different to what I initially thought, apparently DVORAK is not quite DVORAK, as opposed to QWERTY is literally QWERTY.
Thanks Dr. Dvorak for inventing it!
I could probably get similar results on the wrist pain by typing qwerty properly, but it was a shortcut to getting proper typing form, relearning to type in an entirely different layout where I couldn't use looking at the keyboard as a crutch.
@Zergling_man @kazriko @ademalsasa Sean Wrona is one of the fastest typists in the world (if not *the* fastest) and he's a QWERTY typist. But he's also not a home row typist.
I also have a coworker who regularly types 120+ wpm in QWERTY and he also is not a home row typist.
I am a home row typist in Dvorak, and my top speed in a typing competition was 110 wpm. I regularly sit around 90-95 wpm with some 100 wpm bursts.
I'm of the (probably ignorant) opinion home row typing is not efficient.
@kazriko @Zergling_man @ademalsasa Regarding pain, that's why I switched--at the recommendation of my doctor.
I was a competitive piano player in addition to sitting at a computer all day, and noticed some numbness in my left wrist and elbow. My doctor thought it might be RSI and even early signs of carpal tunnel, so he suggested I find a new job and stop playing the piano.
I couldn't do either, so he mentioned some patients had success switching to Dvorak, so I gave that a try. It worked.
@Zergling_man @kazriko @ademalsasa When my daughter was born, I told my wife I would teach her Dvorak. When she got into her first typing class, I told the teacher I would teach her Dvorak.
It turned out to be a royal PITA.
- The Windows computers didn't allow changing keyboard layouts for that domain.
- The school disctrict had to make a special exception for her account.
- The teacher didn't know how to change the layout.
- The homework was QWERTY specific.
- Etc.
She's now a QWERTY typist.
@atoponce this becomes very interesting, Man!
@kazriko @Zergling_man @ademalsasa Yup. I had this discussion with her. If she decides to change later and has the know-how for making the switch in the OS, then I'll help teach her.