Dvorak vs. QWERTY?

[Blue Harvest]

I thought this was about some member I haven't heard of and qwertyxsora.

[Iceglow]

The Dvorak layout was designed to address the problems of inefficiency and fatigue which characterized the QWERTY keyboard layout. The QWERTY layout was introduced in the 1860s, being used on the first commercially-successful typewriter, the machine invented by Christopher Sholes. The QWERTY layout was designed so that successive keystrokes would alternate between sides of the keyboard so as to avoid jams. Improvements in typewriter design made key jams less of a problem, but the introduction of the electric typewriter in the 1930s made typist fatigue more of a problem, leading to increased interest in the Dvorak layout.

That is what the QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to do blackmage_nuke. QWERTY was designed to stop people jamming type writers up with the key strokes. This isn't a problem today as it was then. The funny thing is I looked at the below image and thought omg DVORAK is horrible!



Taking more time to look at the DVORAK keyboard layout I can definitely see the appeal for coders and the like who use colons and semi-colons regulary but to be honest I have coded minor things and prefer QWERTY to the idea of the DVORAK keyboard. DVORAK would feel both unnatural and wrong for me it'd be like setting my keyboard to chineese and trying to use it by looking at the keys, it'd just be horrible. I'm also a left hander too so I'd hate using DVORAK since it's designed for the right handed person.

Overall I'm not going to bother attempting to re-learn typing for DVORAK I'm happy with the QWERTY keyboard layout as has every person typing professionally since the 1860's. Some people believe that some skills become genetically passable to future generations in which case we are all born with the ability to look at a QWERTY keyboard and figure out how to get atleast 30wpm typing speeds.

[demondude]

The DVORAK keyboard looks weird, I'll stick to QWERTY thank you.

[Madame Adequate]

I'd use Dvorak if I could find a Dvorak keyboard. As it stands I stick with QWERTY.

[blackmage_nuke]

I think there should be some kind of feature to easily swap individual keys so to learn Dvorak it only takes you to change one key at a time from qwerty and should only take a few months with no real hindrance on your typing ability. It can be done with hotkeys and a screw driver but that takes a while.

Or you know that makes no sense at all

[Brennan]

I'm too lazy to find out what Dvorak is, so I'm staying with QWERTY

[Momiji]

I'm too lazy to find out what Dvorak is, so I'm staying with QWERTY

The answer to that lies four posts above yours. :rolleyes2

[Randgris]

I thought this was about some member I haven't heard of and qwertyxsora.

I thought there was a showdown... Bleh!

QWERTY using a typewriter, 10+ years ago. Still using QWERTY... Too lazy to learn new keyboard stuff...

[Bahamut2000X]

I had a teacher named Dvorak. :monster

But I'm far too lazy to learn how to type differently.

[Yar]

I had heard of Dvorak before this, but I wasn't really sure what it was. It sounds like a lot of you prefer the QWERTY.

[scrumpleberry]

I've never used Dvorak, I'm used to qwerty. Also qwerty is a fantastic word

[rubah]

You should try colemac

[Zeldy]

The Dvorak keyboard only looks "weird" as it's not what you're used to. The QWERTY keyboard layout is pretty weird too, if you actually look it. I think it's weird how you manage to know where the keys are, when the keys are not ordered or anything, or are they? it just looks like the keys have all been put in any old place to me.

I really want to try that new keyboard now, it'd be interesting.

[qwertysaur]

I thought this was about me too.

Yeah, I use QWERTY. Never even seen a Dvorak keyboard.

[Jiro]

I'll stick to QWERTY, but Dvorak does seem to help people who do a lot of programming. But whatever floats your boat, I don't care at all