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does ANYBODY use a Dvorak keyboard?

 
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My wife got me one for my birthday. i'm trying to learn it, but it's slow. i don't think i can justify switching over at work yet, as i'm be too damn slow.

but it's hard going back and forth.

anybody have advice?
 
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Don't use it but I tried it in the past.

Lessons here: http://gigliwood.com/abcd/abcd.html

Neat conversion thing: http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak/dvorak.html

I been tempted to change to it to confuse the crap out of people when they get to my desk!

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If you touch type (I don't), I've heard you can get the same amount of enjoyment by just randomly switching your key caps around...
 
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When i used to work retail, i got pretty good at 10-keying (typing in a LOT of ISBNs). i never had to look at the keyboard.

one day, as a joke, i switched the 123 keys with the 789 keys. so instead of being

789
456
123

i made it look like
123
456
789

several people got mad at me, because they had to look to type.

then about a month later, they decided to "get" me by doing the same thing. I guess they didn't realize i didn't look, because when my shift was about half over, someone asked me how i liked it. I had to honestly tell them i never even noticed they were switched.
 
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a friend of mine at work tried switching to Dvorak. Once he remapped his head, he got quite quick at it -- but it was too tough to keep switching between his keyboard and someone else's. So he finally just went back to QWERTY.
 
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Dvorak keyboard?! That's cheating! I learned DVORAK the honest way, on a QWERTY keyboard with a diagram.

Now I really wish I could go back, it's such a pain in the ass to have to hunt and peck on every other computer, not to mention I have to change my programs so other people can use them.

Bottom line: it's stupid, you type no faster, and it's a real pain in the ass. Stay away!

(It is kind of nice when people try to use my computer)
 
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Wow! I haven't heard of the Dvorak keyboard in almost 20 years. That was right up there with briliant, yet useless input devices like the "chordkey". I theory, the Dvorak is much better than the QWERTY, but if you've ever learned to type on a QWERTY, I have heard that you'll never be as good on a Dvorak no matter how hard you practice. BUT, if you are 100% new to typing, you'llI learn a Dvorak quicker and type faster. That is what they say anyway.
 
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