Anyone out there use DVORAK?

[hurrikaane]

Just curious.. tempted to try and switch

 

[silverpig]

No, but I wish I had learned. I don't think I can un-learn qwerty.

Besides, it'd make it super hard to use wasd for CS :Q

 

[Kenny]

Zei K kzk aoi aoizei wkm y qpkt zm]

Edit: Sh!t, my friend doesn't have a dvorak keyboard, I'm not used to this standard version of it...

 

[Ameesh]

no only snobby assholes use dvorak

 

[IEatChildren]

I used dvorak for a while

Took me about a week to get used to the layout, and then I was typing like a champ. It felt more sensible the way all the vowels are right under your left hand. I went back to qwerty cause it got confusing when I had to type qwerty at work and dvorak at home.

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
no only snobby assholes use dvorak

Why do you say that? As far as I know, QWERTY was designed to make you type slower. This was to avoid
jamming of type-writers.

 

[JimRaynor]

yeah only people who want to be l337. I don't really think that there are people out there that like dvoraks, more like people that like the IDEA of using a dvorak.

 

[beer]

I agree with Ameesh and JimRaynor. It doesn't matter how much 'faster' dvorak is 'in theory.' In practice most people can type fast enough on qwerty to get along. Most of the time i spend on the computer is spent thinking, not typing. You'd waste many hours and weeks learning dvorak to get a few extra WPM. maybe if you were a secretary, working on a single computer, typing for eight hours a day, you'd be fine. It's like spending $10,000 to replace a fully-functional air conditioner to save $50 a month. Yea, you'll be a bit more efficient, but you will have wasted the equivalent of years of saving a few wpm/$ to improve slightly.

It's a neat idea when you think about. Then you realize that you can never really use another computer again....because you'd have to either use dvorak with qwerty key labels or switch back to qwerty. And forget about getting a dvorak keyboard on a laptop.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
I agree with Ameesh and JimRaynor. It doesn't matter how much 'faster' dvorak is 'in theory.' In practice most people can type fast enough on qwerty to get along. Most of the time i spend on the computer is spent thinking, not typing. You'd waste many hours and weeks learning dvorak to get a few extra WPM. maybe if you were a secretary, working on a single computer, typing for eight hours a day, you'd be fine. It's like spending $10,000 to replace a fully-functional air conditioner to save $50 a month. Yea, you'll be a bit more efficient, but you will have wasted the equivalent of years of saving a few wpm/$ to improve slightly.

It's a neat idea when you think about. Then you realize that you can never really use another computer again....because you'd have to either use dvorak with qwerty key labels or switch back to qwerty. And forget about getting a dvorak keyboard on a laptop.

It's not quite THAT bad to learn it.

And if you learned it and became proficient, you wouldn't have to worry about getting a laptop with dvorak as you could just tell windows it's dvorak and then because you're proficient, you have the keys memorized. I don't have to look at the keys when I type qwerty, for all I care they could all be labeled in arabic.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Dvorak on: Yes. I use a Dvorak keyboard. It took some getting used to, but I really like it now.
Dvorak Off: Td;e G f;d a H.soav vdtnsaohe Gk Kssv ;smd udkkglu f;dh ksw nfk G odappt pgvd gk ls,e


Sometimes I get mixed up and start typing QWERTY on my Dvorak, and sometimes i type Dvorak on a qwerty ...ahh well ... its a cool novelty at the least.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
no only snobby assholes use dvorak

so you have one?

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Ameesh
no only snobby assholes use dvorak

so you have one?

lol

 

[hurrikaane]

I think the main argument for dvorak is that it's less stressful on the hands.

 

[Anubis]

i have one set up i just dont use it. mabye i shoulkd try it sometime

 

[Miramonti]

how does one learn it?

 

[Electric Amish]

I tried it for awhile.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: jjsole
how does one learn it?

throw away your existing QWERTY and plug in a DVORAK. learn it thru trial and error.

 

[BornStar]

I tried for a while but it took me about 3 hours to type a sentence. I'm considering trying it again altough having to use all of the QWERTY keyboards at work kind of worries me.