Poll: Who uses Dvorak keyboard layout? - Poll please!

What layout do you use?

  • Qwerty

    Votes: 496 97.8%

  • Dvorak

    Votes: 6 1.2%

  • Several

    Votes: 4 0.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • Total voters
    507
It remins me of first learning to touch type, at the time I thought I was some sort of genius, then I realised pretty much everyone could do it :/
 
I love QWERT too much to change. Touch typing is easy with QWERTY and I can type faster than my brain can think of the words.

One thing that does annoy me, is using Macs and 'normal' computers equally, I get muddled with the @" keys, amongst others.
 
simulatorman said:
No thanks, QWERTY is good enough for me and I suspect it is good enough for most of the planet.
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Alas, this is true. I don't even know if you can buy Dvorak keyboards (you must be able to, surely?)
There are many reasons why Dvorak should be taught in schools etc rather than QWERTY - increased speed, decreased finger/wrist strain, and ease of learning (yes, Dvorak's meant to be easier to learn than QWERTY) to name a few. But due to the prevalence of QWERTY, it's getting more and more unlikely ever to happen. If QWERTY and Dvorak were companies, QWERTY would be sued to kingdom come for uncompetitive behaviour :p
 
meghatronic said:
I love QWERT too much to change. Touch typing is easy with QWERTY and I can type faster than my brain can think of the words.

One thing that does annoy me, is using Macs and 'normal' computers equally, I get muddled with the @" keys, amongst others.
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Wow, you have one slow brain :D
 
I use an MS natural keyboard, and that prompts strange looks if anyone tries to use my PC - good way to stop people nicking your office desk. ;)

I'm not sure if that sort of keyboard is even compatible with the DVORAK layout though. I do some sort of hybrid touch typing thing that is neither two-fingered nor the 'correct' way (I'm Pitman grade two gualified don'tchaknow, so I know what correct is). :)

Now then, does anyone here use AZERTY? :eek:
 
I'm game. Not used one of these before, going to give it a try.

Years ago my Grandmother told me that the original type writers had the keys alphabetically. Typists picked up speed until they routinely reached the point of the hammers locking together, so qwerty was introduced to slow them down. As such it makes sense to use a layout designed to be efficient rather than one designed to stop type writers locking together.

I've got a spare keyboard I'll take apart and move the keys around on. Cheers

edit: I've used AZERTY off and on. Don't like it at all, confuses the hell out of me having most keys in the normal places but some not.
 
Berserker said:
I use an MS natural keyboard, and that prompts strange looks if anyone tries to use my PC - good way to stop people nicking your office desk. ;)
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I just think "eugh" whenever I see one of those keyboards :p

JonJ678 said:
I'm game. Not used one of these before, going to give it a try.

Years ago my Grandmother told me that the original type writers had the keys alphabetically. Typists picked up speed until they routinely reached the point of the hammers locking together, so qwerty was introduced to slow them down. As such it makes sense to use a layout designed to be efficient rather than one designed to stop type writers locking together.

I've got a spare keyboard I'll take apart and move the keys around on. Cheers
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Nice one. Let us know how you get on :p
 
The design of QWERTY has got nothing to do with slowing people down, it's to do with placing letters commonly used together far apart to prevent the mechanism from jamming. It's the proximity of the letters which causes the jam, not the speed.

http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html

I tried Dvorak, I also tried natural keyboards and neither (even after a lot of practice) were any faster than standard QWERTY, and I'm pretty quick with a QWERTY already (90+ wpm) so I have no incentive to swap.
 
Mr^B said:
The design of QWERTY has got nothing to do with slowing people down, it's to do with placing letters commonly used together far apart to prevent the mechanism from jamming. It's the proximity of the letters which causes the jam, not the speed.
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This - although a consequence of moving the letters far apart was, inevitably, to produce a suboptimal layout for maximum speed. Dvorak was created with different aims in mind; as a result, higher speeds have been attained on it than using QWERTY.
That isn't to say QWERTY is slow, or necessarily slower than Dvorak even - what it means is higher speeds are attainable on Dvorak. Not that everyone will attain higher speeds.
 
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