Some time ago I was wildly pressing "random article" button on wikipedia, (I was basically doing stumbleupon before stumbleupon was invented.) most of the things I came across were useless factoids about some schools football team, or as species of goo that wasn't special at all.
Then on day I hit this beauty { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_simplified_keyboard }.
So here's what I found and I'll try keep it short. why are the keys on your keyboard all jumbled up..the answer I always got was that so salesmen could spell typewriter from the top row and to eliminate typebar clashes. Now days both of those reason are pretty useless but we still use QWERTY keyboard, But did you know a man named August Dvorak made a keyboard layout specifically to improve typing speed, reducing errors and resisting strain on typing hands.
I started using Dvorak right after reading the article, and though it took me some time to get used to it, now I type faster then anyone I know. Recently a friend of mine was browsing flash games and came across some little typing game. spell words correctly fast enough and the little ship on screen will shoot incoming asteroids. So he was really getting into it and I was watching all the time. His hands were in pain, he was making mistakes and barely looking at the screen at all. He died once too many and I asked for a go. His best score was somewhere in the 4000's and on level 7. On my first go I got to level 8. Second attempt level 11, third attempt level 13 the final level in the game. Needless to say he was impressed and a bit confused, he hadn't noticed I had changed the keyboard setting to Dvorak.
So now after that I feel great, I want to share Dvorak with everyone. I think everyone should have try it, and more people should think about the layout of keys and why we use input devices the way we do.
Benefits of Dvorak
Improved typing speed
Less typo's
Less risk of Carpal tunnel syndrome
improved security (no one else can type anything on your keyboard)
win at typing flash games.
Here's a quick breakdown of Dvorak to try get your head around it.
typing from the top row left to right
q w e r t y u i o p ----------------------------------------------- ' , . p y f g c r l
a s d f g h j k l ; ----------------------------------------------- a o e u i d h t n s
z x c v b n m , . / ----------------------------------------------- ; q j k x b m w v z
Then on day I hit this beauty { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_simplified_keyboard }.
So here's what I found and I'll try keep it short. why are the keys on your keyboard all jumbled up..the answer I always got was that so salesmen could spell typewriter from the top row and to eliminate typebar clashes. Now days both of those reason are pretty useless but we still use QWERTY keyboard, But did you know a man named August Dvorak made a keyboard layout specifically to improve typing speed, reducing errors and resisting strain on typing hands.
I started using Dvorak right after reading the article, and though it took me some time to get used to it, now I type faster then anyone I know. Recently a friend of mine was browsing flash games and came across some little typing game. spell words correctly fast enough and the little ship on screen will shoot incoming asteroids. So he was really getting into it and I was watching all the time. His hands were in pain, he was making mistakes and barely looking at the screen at all. He died once too many and I asked for a go. His best score was somewhere in the 4000's and on level 7. On my first go I got to level 8. Second attempt level 11, third attempt level 13 the final level in the game. Needless to say he was impressed and a bit confused, he hadn't noticed I had changed the keyboard setting to Dvorak.
So now after that I feel great, I want to share Dvorak with everyone. I think everyone should have try it, and more people should think about the layout of keys and why we use input devices the way we do.
Benefits of Dvorak
Improved typing speed
Less typo's
Less risk of Carpal tunnel syndrome
improved security (no one else can type anything on your keyboard)
win at typing flash games.
Here's a quick breakdown of Dvorak to try get your head around it.
typing from the top row left to right
q w e r t y u i o p ----------------------------------------------- ' , . p y f g c r l
a s d f g h j k l ; ----------------------------------------------- a o e u i d h t n s
z x c v b n m , . / ----------------------------------------------- ; q j k x b m w v z
