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- From: andrews@sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Andrews)
- Subject: Re: DVORAK Keyboard driver, can I change the keys of my keyboard?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.173212.4867@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
- References: <1992Jul13.145922.19525@crash.cts.com> <1992Jul19.043758.28131@csrd.uiuc.edu> <STEINMAN.92Jul20094212@hawk.is.morgan.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 17:32:12 GMT
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- steinman@is.morgan.com (Jan Steinman) writes:
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- >>In article <1992Jul19.043758.28131@csrd.uiuc.edu> andrews@sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Andrews) writes:
- >> I wrote a program to generate random patterns to help me learn the
- >> Dvorak keyboard.
-
- >This is probably not the best way to learn the Dvorak keyboard. Dvorak
- >based his design on frequency of repetition in the English language of
- >"digraphs", two-character sequences. Since most common digraphs are
- >vowel-consonant or consonant-vowel, Dvorak placed all the vowels on
- >one hand in order to optimize the use of right-left or left right
- >sequences. In addition, he used relative digraph-to-digraph
- >frequencies to implement "on-board-flow", where typical english-word
- >keystrokes progress from the little fingers to the index fingers.
-
- Since typing classes for QWERTY don't teach you by starting with all keys
- using english text, I can't imagine that this is the optimal way to learn
- Dvorak. There are too many things to learn at once with regular text.
- I think it is useful to nail the home row before trying regular text.
-
- >> I use a combination of doing real work plus these exercises to try
- >> to learn Dvorak.
-
- >I'd ditch the exercises while learing, and you'll learn much faster.
- >Just start typing from a newspaper -- the limited vocabulary will his
- >your basic words extra hard. As in the Morse code, you need to have
- >"muscle memory" for entire words, or you will never get very fast.
-
- >The patterns may be useful for developing strength and coordination,
- >but probably only after you can already touch-type Dvorak.
-
- Thanks, but my combination method is working well *for me*.
-
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