Anyone use Dvorak or any other keyboard setup than QWERTY?

[amadeus]

I'm getting dizzy just looking at the cartoon.

 

[ainwood]

Moderator Action: Moved to computer talk

 

[I am the Future]

From typing too fast? I doubt it, try typing randomly as fast as you can, see if you can get your computer to freeze (I don't think you will).

My computer comes close, some times I can get multiple sentences ahead of my computer. It actually gets realy REALY annoying.

 

[Speedo]

I would probably switch, or at least give it a try, if I could get a decent keyboard hard wired for it. I'm not sure I would end up using it though, since I doubt I could get my brain to easily switch between it and QWERTY... which I'd have to do.

 

[Maniacal]

It matters little to me since I henpeck faster than proper typing.

Same here, I fail to even remember to type properly anyways. ANdI really have to force myself to type properly. DnagnamiT!

 

[Theodorick]

I never typed the 'proper' way. I always type with only two fingers, one on each hand, and use my elbows to move. Yeah, a bad way of typing I know

Will Dvorak speed up my typing even with my awkward way of doing it?

 

[taper]

My computer comes close, some times I can get multiple sentences ahead of my computer. It actually gets realy REALY annoying.

It's actually been fairly recent that PC word processors could keep up with a good typist. If you go and type gibberish as fast as you can, I bet everyone here can get ahead of their processor this way. Even the best typists have frequent little pauses though, which lets the PC catch up. You'd have to type really fast for a long time to crash it though, and I bet your fingers cramp up before it happens anyway.

 

[Billy Rubin]

I suppose our Germans here use QWERTZ.

exactly...

 

[Abaddon]

why? is there no y in the german alphabet?

 

[Till]

Some mean soul decided to switch the positions of "y" and "z" for our keyboard layout. Why, i cannot fathom.

 

[dragokatzov]

i've used QWERTY for 10 years. and i am very good at it, going to any other layout probablt would just screw me up, but i might try it sometime

 

[Dell19]

The Dvorak Zine

The QWERTY keybaord was designed to be rubbish in order to slow typists and stop the machines jamming.. does anyone use the Dvorak layout seen as its better?

Thats not exactly accurate since QWERTY is still close to being optimal and only the fastest typers are likely to gain the full benefit from using it. Also I believe that the actual design decision was to separate the most used letters to stop jamming rather than to make it 'slow'. Dvorak has all the common letters on the same row so that you don't have to move as much.

How did this happen since the QWERTY keyboard started with typewriters which I'm guessing came before the first computer.

There were several typewriter layouts and eventually the QWERTY one was adopted because of successful marketing. When computer peripherals start to be added it makes sense to take the standard layout since thats what everyone is trained to use.