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Posted: 02.07.2002 Two fingers or both hands?
Thought that subject title might grab your attention...
 This story was spotted over at Kristine's. It's about the Dvorak keyboard vs. the standard keyboard. The layout is different from the traditional keyboard we're all using -- because Dvorak hated having the letters "QWERTY" in the upper left, the vowels all scattered around, and obscure letters like J and K in prominent locations.
For hunt-and-peck typists like Todd, I think this concept/keyboard might be bliss. But I can basically type with my eyes closed. (Hell, I almost did on the old Dell laptop since the letters on the keys wore off long-ago.) I can't imagine having to re-train my brain to a new keyboard system after all these years. I'd almost certainly have to take a typing class again. To this day, I can still hear my typing teacher shriek "A, S, D, F, J, K, L, semi"!
How do you feel about trying something new? The above-linked article quotes Dvorak as saying, "Proposing a new key layout is akin to proposing to 'reverse the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, discard every moral principle, and ridicule motherhood.'" Sadly, I pretty much have to agree.
 Well, in theory it sounds like it would work better, but are the millions of people all over the world going to throw out their keyboards, fiddle with their software and spend countless hours learning how to retype only to find that they keep typing the old letters instead and creating new words? (like fucktard! hehe). I don't think so. I can pretty much touch type, and although I admit at times it's a little awkward, it's been learnt and I sure as hell ain't learning to type another way. I have enough to do. ¤ ¤ credit: Joanne | 02.07.02 at 05:08 PM | link- -this ¤ ¤ as much as this current keyboard is certainly a slight pain-in-the-ass for people just learning it, i think it would be even more of a pain for me to re-learn a whole new set of keys. i never took very well to those classes anyway; i am pretty self-taught and had been using computers and had some agility (i am a piano player) already... the teachers used to get so pissed at me because i type without my pinkies. but i was always faster than even them, and i think that's what *really* pissed them off :) ¤ ¤ credit: ericalynn | 02.07.02 at 06:09 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I not only play the piano, but I teach as well. I do have extremely numble fingers and find myself twisting about on the keyboard, but I can't imagine learning a different set, it'd be like being told that music notation has changed all of a sudden and you have to learn how to read again. Bugger that! ¤ ¤ credit: Joanne | 02.08.02 at 12:46 AM | link--this ¤ ¤Not sure where you took your typing class, but you just brought back memories of Peggy Pumphrey belting out "ASDF JKL;" And right before bed. It may cause nightmares. ¤ ¤ credit: Kevin | 02.08.02 at 12:59 AM | link--this ¤ ¤One and the same Kevin! *shudder* ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 02.08.02 at 01:10 AM | link--this ¤ ¤I learned Dvorak a few years ago. It was atrociously slow at first, but I finally learned to touch-type the "right" way, and my hands don't hurt after a long day of writing anymore. ¤ ¤ credit: Jerry Kindall | 02.11.02 at 08:56 PM | link--this ¤ ¤
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