QWERTY or Dvorak keyboard?

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What keyboard layout do use?

  • QWERTY or QWERTY based (AZERTY, etc)

    Votes: 48 92.3%

  • Dvorak or Dvorak based

    Votes: 3 5.8%

  • Other - explain

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Total voters
    52
I think the only time I use Q on a keyboard is then typing "Question".

So QWERTY makes sense here. Even better would be to switch the position of E to make it easier to use. If you noticed, I've used the letter "e" quite a bit here. Its totally unintentional too. :D
 
I wonder how a Japanese or Chinese keybord looks like. :)
Photo of a AZERTY keybord
 

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That really depends, since if you learn to touch type with it, which took me all of half a day, you don't need a Dvorak Keyboard, as any old 101/102 keyboard will work.

Windows and OS X can both be switched between them on the fly as well, so its not very hard if one is use to Dvorak to use another computer. However, since most users are already familiar with QWERTY, its kinda like riding a bike in that you never forget. It is awkward for a moment, but you quickly back into the flow of things with it.

I am finding it easier and easier to toggle between them and my speed is still increasing gradually on the Dvorak layout.

And Ceiling_fan, I read on the wiki that the typewriter thing is because it was easier for a sales person to hunt and peck the keys for "typewriter" that way, making it seem like he was reasonably versed in it.
 
Gingiba
Typing 'the' is incredibely easy in Dvorak. Like a wave. Same with other common words...
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So, if "the" is easy in Dvorak, maybe this keyboard was manufactured for the English language. Maybe other languages don't have any advantage with Dvorak.

I never heard of it and it sounds alien to me. :dopey:
 
It has an advantage, no matter what (apart from the French, with their Qs), because of the fact that it evens out typing between the two hands. Localized versions of Dvorak appeared, too.
 
I taught myself the Dvorak layout and haven't looked back. :) While you're learning there tends to be a point when you can't type on a Qwerty keyboard at anything approaching the speed you normally can, but it comes back eventually. I can happily switch between my Dvorak laptop-style keyboard on my own computer and the Qwerty keyboards I have to use everywhere else.

It's hilarious watching other people try to use my keyboard now, every time the first thing I hear is "All your keys are wrong!" :dunce:

*Edit* Typing 'BMW' is very easy too. :sly:
 
When thinking about it, it could be usefull as a privacy-measure. Just imagine someone unwanted finding the keys don't work...
 
Yeah, you can use it for that. In XP it gives you a little keyboard icon in the taskbar that lets you switch between layouts, so you can switch back to the Qwerty layout, or any other that takes your fancy, when leaving your computer. :)
 
See if you can figure it out:
G ja.d ap,at; f;dh X<DOKTw nfk kjg; g; isjdj gl H.soave
 
"I have always used QWERTY, but this is coheh is Dvorak."

Not sure what you meant by "coheh", but the rest is right.
 
So who voted for other? I'm curious about what it could be.

And yeah mini, that makes a bit more sense now.
 
About 2 years ago I pulled off all my keys and rearranged them in the Dvorak layout.

I used it like that for about 2 months, and I got pretty good, but it was the shortcut keys that bothered me most.
 
I dunno about PCs, but in Mac OS X there are two settings for DVORAK &#8211; normal, and then one that automatically switches back to QWERTY when you press the Command key so that you have all of your normal shortcuts.
 
I heard about it. Wish we had something like this on Windows - we can't even switch to Dvorak using Shift + Alt, but rather using an extrenal program.
 
Well, we can use the internal Windows controller, but then we have to switch it for each program.

I'm up to about 20 WPM on the Dvorak board, which isn't half bad considering I am only using it about 30% of the time I am on the computer now. QWERTY speed remains around 70-80 WPM (Depending on what I am testing with), so thats good.

And I am finding it increasingly more natural to use the Dvorak bored. WOOT!
 
Well, we have three people that use it here, myself included. Now, I generally do use QWERTY at work to address the need to do stuff in a timely fashion, but at home I use Dvorak for most anything but heated debates in IM where I need to type at the 80-90 WPM I can do when typing straight from my head.
 

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