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[–]theFriendlyDoomer 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (5 children)
I really enjoy it now, but the learning process was pretty frustrating. I was a teacher at the time, so I was able to give up a summer to playing around with it. It was hell for a few days, I was okay at it within a month or so, and it felt like second nature by the end of the summer.
I wasn't convinced to do it because of speed, but rather care for joints -- I believe I've heard your fingers move a one-third of the total distance as they do in qwerty.
[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (4 children)
That's awesome. Do you ever have problems switching back to qwerty when you use a different computer? Or do you just never use other computers?
[–]theFriendlyDoomer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (3 children)
Most operating systems have Dvorak installed as an option.
There was a brief window when I could switch back and forth between the two (I am to understand that's not actually typical), but after several years now of only using Dvorak I can only touch type in that layout.
[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
I am to understand that's not actually typical
That's the exact reason I never learned it. I can do 100-120 wpm on a qwerty so the idea of doing 140-150 wpm on dvorak was very enticing. But the inability to switch was just a deal-killer, especially when I was in college and working in an office and using lots of different computers.
Did you notice wpm speed gains from switching?
[–]theFriendlyDoomer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
I've been pretty decent at touch typing most my life, so not really. The thing is that most of our speed comes from learning multi-key combinations. Dvorak realistically can only increase speed 10% or so. But I really feel the difference on how much I get to keep my fingers on home row (one of those Pareto 80/20 deals).
[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
That sounds like a nice feel. Thanks for telling me about your firsthand experience with it.
Speaking of multi-key combinations... I once looked in to learning how to use a stenographer keyboard, which can do like 250 wpm (it's what they use in courtrooms and for tv closed captioning). I'm still kind of half-considering it. I watched a talk about a programmer who added programming functions as multi-key combinations as well, so they could code very fast. (I found the talk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-Qb-dB6g )
Steno is a "chord" based system, where you hit like 5 keys at once, and basically type whole words simultaneously rather than letter-by-letter: https://www.huseby.com/blog/2019/court-reporting-more-than-just-typing-fast
But I guess it involves a lot of shorthand as well, so it needs an interpretation system to make it back in to full English. But I guess this is already solved with real-time closed captioning, so it seems like it should be doable on a computer too... anyways I always thought that would be a cool thing to try, going even beyond Dvorak.
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