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Has anyone here tried any alternatives to the QWERTY layout? Been trying to teach myself to type in Dvorak lately.
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@therussellhome, you hit on one of my reasons for learning - to keep people off of my workstations.
Right now I'm at ~25wpm on Dvorak. When I need to do fast or extensive typing I switch back to QWERTY but I'm slowly getting more comfortable with Dvorak. What I do notice is that the division of letters between the hands is "blockier" - In other words, there's less back and forth and more 4-6 letter strings that are taken entirely with one hand.
Yes, it was designed to alternate hands more to prevent the locking up that could occur from rapid pressing of keys in close proximity. It was also intended to slow down the typist, but studies have shown that this part of the design did not really succeed, and the evidence is mixed on whether Dvorak actually increases typing speed. But some (as already noted above) do say it helps with tension, although I've read other studies showing that it simply relocates the tension to different areas of the hand.Qwerty is intentionally so. Once upon a time typewriters had a habit of locking up, probably as a result of certain combinations, maybe even typing too fast (have to look up). Qwerty was developed as a solution to that.