I use the DVORAK keyboard to type, and this is one of the reasons why. I kept waiting for him to mention it. I've often found myself saying almost the exact same words that goat is saying, to explain why I don't use QWERTY.
27 February 2007
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I use the DVORAK keyboard to type, and this is one of the reasons why. I kept waiting for him to mention it. I've often found myself saying almost the exact same words that goat is saying, to explain why I don't use QWERTY.
I use the DVORAK keyboard to type, and this is one of the reasons why. I kept waiting for him to mention it. I've often found myself saying almost the exact same words that goat is saying, to explain why I don't use QWERTY.
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so you steal my post and don't even did you really post that before me??
questionable...
but dvorak isn't even in alphabetical order either. it's in some newfangled order which i'm guessing puts the most commonly used letters in easilly accessible positions, which i obviously don't know since i don't use it. the vowels are all in a row. which i guess could be good. but still, it feels just as random to me as qwerty. please explain. And...go:
It's true.
There's a link to an image of the Dvorak keyboard in my post.
on the home row, you have:
aoeuidhtns
which are the vowels and the most common consonants in English. You can type faster when you are typing back and forth between hands, left, right, left, right, etc., so the vowels all being on one hand and the common letters on the others makes sense.
Another advantage is that common letter combinations (th, sn, nt) are typed from left to right on the left hand and right to left on the left hand. It's easier and faster this way, as you'll be able to tell if you try to drum your fingers the opposite way.
Finally, more uncommon letters and punctuation are placed in the upper and lower rows, so you're hands have to move from the home row much less often. Many more words can be typed on the DVORAK home row than on the QWERTY home row.
That's the basics. They did all kinds of studies and tests though, studying the most common letters and letter combinations etc. in English, so it really is only useful for typing in English . . .
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