Rainbow Rosa
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Jan 1, 2021 3:15:46 GMT -5
OK, this may be the nerdiest thread on the already nerdy TIF, but hear me out - I am considering learning Dvorak, and am curious if anyone else has made the jump from QWERTY to Dvorak. Or to Colemak, or any of those other alternate typing formats.
I'm a very fast typer (pretty consistently in the 100 wpm range) but I am also extremely paranoid w/r/t getting carpal tunnel later in life and being unable to write, particularly because my method of ""touch typing"" is extremely erratic - hard to explain, but I type with my left hand usually hovering over either AWER or SERT while my right hand more or less is just pecking. So speed is less important to me than comfort/long-term health.
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Trurl
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Post by Trurl on Jan 9, 2021 11:12:51 GMT -5
Rainbow Rosa Anecdotally I’ve heard, purely anecdotally, that Dvorak is more comfortable, but I don’t think there’s much hard evidence that it really is (even if it makes intuitive sense). Part of that might also be that the whole keyboard use-carpal tunnel connection’s probably not true. I think most people who are concerned with ergonomics—and they’re still important regardless—tend to focus more on the keyboard itself rather than layout, but if you go to the really ergonomic keyboards there’s still the whole retraining your hands issue. I did teach myself Dvorak but it never became my main mode, mainly because I didn’t want to rewire all the keyboard shortcut motions that have been burned into my brain. After a while you do pass a threshold where it does become completely natural and about as quick as regular typing, though, so the speed thing doesn’t really become an issue (except, in my case, for keyboard shortcuts, which was made worse because I just memorized the Dvorak layout instead of actually doing something w/the keyboard lettering). I started using one of those Microsoft "ergonometric" keyboards back in the 90s and I do find them more comfortable. I think that if I were going to go for some other keyboard layout I'd instead opt for a chorded keyboard - they're more flexible, ergonomically. |
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Crash Test Dumbass
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 11, 2021 11:09:06 GMT -5
I had a very frustrating and angering dream that someone replaced the keyboards at the Reference desk with Dvorak keyboards without asking or telling anybody or even remembering to remap the keyboard input and I blame this thread.
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Post by Prole Hole on Feb 4, 2021 6:25:08 GMT -5
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