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- From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
- Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
- Subject: Re: touch typing
- Message-ID: <NBXZXB8w165w@mertwig.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:02:58 EST
- References: <1993Jan24.230505.924@zooid.guild.org>
- Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net (Daniel Drucker)
- Organization: Abnormalities of Reality
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- Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
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- > From daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
- > >On a qwerty keyboard, I average around 70 wpm, but on my DVORAK
- > >keyboard, I average 100, peaking to 120 wpm. Try dvorak, its great!
- >
- > How is it different?
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- QWERTY was designed to SLOW down the typist. Thats cause typewriters
- in the 1800s jammed if you typed to fast. Computers don't have that
- prob. DVORAK is designed so the most used keys are in the home row.
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- Hello...I wish I had time to post as much as andrew...where do you
- find the time?
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