Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

The issue I had with Colemak is it assumes you have a US keyboard and the \ key didn't work. This caused me to change back to qwerty when I wanted to use it, so I just gave up in the end.
 
While it's an interesting idea, I have no desire to learn how to use a system outside of what I'll encounter at work (hot-desking in various offices).

Also, changing the settings for every single game, device, phone or tablet would get annoying after a while (about 13 seconds).
 
MooMoo444 said:
I've been mentally conditioned to use QWERTY my whole life. Even if DVORAK is faster, it'd take me 20 years to get QWERTY out of my system.
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This,

Also I use 3 different laptops and one desktop at work, I wouldn't be able to change them all away from QWERTY, so theres no point for me to try at all.
 
Sin_Chase said:
20 words a minute? WHAT?! :confused: That's like...single finger typing slow.

Dvorak just seems like a poor idea, mainly because the second you need to use another system it's 99.99% sure to be a qwerty layout.
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Yeah, It's not the speed really, it's the amount of errors too, and using the index and middle fingers.

And it seemed like everybody else on the planet could type with all fingers and pretty much without looking.
So for about a week I tried learning to type from the home row, without looking ect, and it's incredibly hard weirdly.

And Dvorak just sounded a bit fun. I'm probably the one person on the planet that might actually benefit.
I only ever use my own PC, and I don't work with them.
 
I really can't see the point. The second you use another system you're ****ed. If you can't take the time to learn qwerty and become proficient in it, how are you going to learn an entirely new system to a greater degree of success? It seems like a pointless endeavor, develop the skills you have, don't start from scratch!
 
Just because you start learning Dvorak or Colemak doesn't suddenly mean you look at a Qwerty board and your head explodes from not being able to comprehend it. You don't suddenly forget how to drive a right hand drive car when you drive a left hand drive...
 
MooMoo444 said:
I've been mentally conditioned to use QWERTY my whole life. Even if DVORAK is faster, it'd take me 20 years to get QWERTY out of my system.
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It took me about a week to learn DVORAK. Its overwritten my QWERTY knowledge, though I am a lot faster now with DVORAK.

Its kind of annoying having to keep changing keyboard types with certain softwares and some games not having the right keys assigned, but I do like being able to type faster and more accurately.
 
OhEsEcks said:
Just because you start learning Dvorak or Colemak doesn't suddenly mean you look at a Qwerty board and your head explodes from not being able to comprehend it. You don't suddenly forget how to drive a right hand drive car when you drive a left hand drive...
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I don't think it's quite the same. A few devs at my work have weird keyboard layouts and although I can recall the bindings of each I find it hard to concentrate on what I'm doing whilst thinking "his ctrl is bound to super". Typing is largely a background task that shouldn't really consume much thought. I respect anyone that can simply flip that switch in their head but typing feels so ingrained in me it would be like adopting a different breathing pattern.

I certainly wouldn't entertain using an obscure keyboard layout at work.
 
I have a Dvorak keyboard at work, and a ducky at home which has blank keys.
switching between qwerty and dvorak if i need to isn't that hard.

You'll find the best way to get quicker is to get a set of blank key caps, you'll become quicker at qwerty faster than you know and won't need to change.
I find dvorak more comfortable to type with, otherwise it's no real difference in speed.
 
Really don't see the point, everyone knows QWERTY anyway so why bother wish something else? Just seems like one of them silly geek things some people do just for the hell of it :p
 
Wow, that's bringing a thread back from the dead :p
Not everyone knows qwerty.
I regularly now use qwerty and dvorak at work, dvorak is more comfortable. It's only drawback is compatability with games/applications.
 
The way I see it, your fingers move at the speed they move at, a mild configuration change isn't going to make you noticeably faster. Yes certain words will be easier to access but in balance the rest of the words will be harder to access. The keys are still the same distance from each other after all, just in a different arrangement, the "reach" is still exactly the same.
 
this thread again... tis silly - not much evidence that it provides any significant advantages in terms of general typing + keyboard shortcuts are designed with qwerty keyboards in mind
 
Hmmmm I've come across many keyboard layouts in my time; mainly from staff bringing in there own laptops at work... but the worst keyboard bar none is the HP one where the function keys are on the left hand side, as I use the left side a line my hand for touch typing.

I can't use a standard keyboard any more, let alone a mech one, my fingers and hand start to hurt after a while, I'm so used to using laptop flat button keys from working with laptops and macs.. anything more than a light touch gives me RSI.

Maybe I should learn to use Dvorak, it may slow me down for a few months/years and stop me seeing "command not found" and "bad command or file name"... lol
 
GiraffePencils said:
Wow, that's bringing a thread back from the dead :p
Not everyone knows qwerty.
I regularly now use qwerty and dvorak at work, dvorak is more comfortable. It's only drawback is compatability with games/applications.
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Yea no idea how that happened... it was at the top of the list when I clicked on GD?! Strange!
 
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