Dvorak vs. QWERTY?

[Initial Fantasy]

If you really spend so much time sitting on your computer typing some rather than having a life, by all means I'm sure learning Dvorak would be a great investment of time.

Otherwise, why the hell would you even consider wasting your time learning something so pointless.

[blackmage_nuke]

If you really spend so much time sitting on your computer typing some rather than having a life, by all means I'm sure learning Dvorak would be a great investment of time.

Otherwise, why the hell would you even consider wasting your time learning something so pointless.

It sounds insane but some people use computers to make a living.

[Cloudane]

Isn't Dvorak some nut job who makes crazy predictions about Apple?

Okay, I know what you mean really. I tried Dvorak once, but it drove me insane typing like a n00b again so I returned to my rapid Qwerty performance.

It took years to get my Qwerty skills up to the level it eventually stabilised at... I figured that spending another 5 years getting Dvorak up to the same standard so that I can eventually type 0.01% faster is not a worthwhile time investment.

[demondude]

If you really spend so much time sitting on your computer typing some rather than having a life, by all means I'm sure learning Dvorak would be a great investment of time.

Otherwise, why the hell would you even consider wasting your time learning something so pointless.

Coming from someone who wastes their time bitching about keyboard settings on an internet forum. xD

[Initial Fantasy]

I spend alot of time on my computer. I already know two keyboard layouts without looking.

Besides that,

I'm sure learning a new keyboard layout would hardly help someone who posts messages online a few times a day.

[bipper]

It's not so much more efficient that it's worth the time to relearn it, for the things I need it for.

It's like buying a $10,000 heating system to save $15/month on electricity.

But if that one heating system became industry standard, you would be saving a 15 dollar exponential amount over time as new generations grasped the new layout. Sides, it only takes an average of 28 days to change a habbit. And yes, virginia, typing has actually been considered habitual once someone has had a moderate level of experience.

Personally, I like querty better.

[KH-Cloudy]

To switch off to Dvorak is like learning another language, except not as tedious. I've tried before, but I failed >.>


QWERTY ftw!

[Roto13]

If you really spend so much time sitting on your computer typing some rather than having a life, by all means I'm sure learning Dvorak would be a great investment of time.

Believe it or not, learning how to type a different way doesn't require you to do nothing but practice all day every day for the rest of your life.

You certainly like to accuse people of not having lives. I'm sure that says more about you than anyone else.

[champagne supernova]

I think in the speed-typing contests, contestants generally use Dvorak, as it allows for quicker typing.

Qwerty keyboards are definitely inefficient. They're used in Economics as an example of Lock-In - because once you've learnt how to use it, it becomes costly to change to something new, even it is better.

[Iceglow]

In my opinion having read a lot about it now and studied the image I posted a lot, only a right handed person would be faster using DVORAK. A left hander would probably be faster using QWERTY because QWERTY makes the left hand do over 50% of the typing. Being left handed this makes me naturally faster than you Right handers, and btw, I use my mouse right handed so QWERTY for me is truly a natural way of typing.

[camkreme]

There can't be the best keyboard layout, if you agree with me? We all have the comfort zone on what layout to use. Now in addition to it, through the verge of the new technologies, smartphone are commonly using qwerty layout and would be much more uncomfortable to use when you're in a hurry on attending some message to reply that takes more than a minute to create and need thorough proof reading for typo.

*snip*

[Old Manus]

camkreme, you misunderstand.

I posted a right handed person would be much more than a lot about it becomes costly to change to use my mouse right handed person would be faster than you Right handers, and fun! I think in addition to use it, through the verge of the verge of typing. There can't be much more uncomfortable to use Dvorak, as an example of Lock-In - because QWERTY for quicker typing.

Qwerty keyboards are definitely inefficient. They're used in addition to something new, even it allows for quicker typing. There can't be the verge of the left hander would be easier.

[blackmage_nuke]

If you really spend so much time sitting on your computer typing some rather than having a life, by all means I'm sure learning Dvorak would be a great investment of time.

Otherwise, why the hell would you even consider wasting your time learning something so pointless.

It sounds insane but some people use computers to make a living.

Oh man what happened to you nuke, you use to be so witty

[rubah]

just to prove a point, I typed this post in colemak.

I haven't used it in forever, but I still have enough muscle memory to be able to do it.

[Iceglow]

Wow talk about thread necromancy 2008 is a long time ago. Feels weird to see my old posts back then again. Well I'm still going to say the same thing as I did back then. For me learning Dvorak or another keyboard layout would be pointless. The only thing I think would be beneficial for me to master is to memorize the full american variant of QWERTY and also the Apple/Mac variant of QWERTY and these are mostly for work or for when I'm travelling around since most countries rely heavily on the American settings of QWERTY for their character positions.