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- From: sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.012426.26902@oz.plymouth.edu>
- Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.
- References: <1if0scINN6k2@uwm.edu> <1if7duINN2ho@gallium.cs.unc.edu> <1993Jan7.003908.16204@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 01:24:26 GMT
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- nrabinow@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Nancy Rabinowitz) writes:
- >So, if you can't touch-type then you shouldn't think about getting a
- >Dvorak? Isn't the physical keyboard different?
-
- I've never seen a physical Dvorak keyboard, though I've heard they
- exist. If you had one, of course, you wouldn't need to learn to touch
- type. But you should anyway, if you do any significant amount of
- computing ... in fact, not knowing how to touch type before learning
- Dvorak is actually a plus, in my opinion: less to unlearn.
-
- I wrote my first book using a QWERTY board at about 13 wpm - drove me
- crazy. I took some of the royalties from it and bought a software
- typing tutor program, which happened to have a Dvorak learning mode
- option. I studied what this was about, and decided to go with it. I
- did not touch type at the time I switched to Dvorak, so I had nothing
- to lose.
-
- Learning to touch type with the Dvorak keyboard programmed onto a
- QWERTY keyboard was actually excellent for me. I probably would have
- constantly looked at the keyboard if it matched at all. Since I wasn't
- able to, I was forced to learn touch typing. I now type at about 60
- wpm, Dvorak, where I seem to have plateaued and will probably stay.
- That's fine. Sure beats 13 wpm and having to look in two or three
- places at once like I did before!
-
- --
- - Steffan O'Sullivan sos@oz.plymouth.edu
-