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Is DVORAK Gaining Traction Among Coders?
coderpath asks: "At a recent Seattle Ruby Brigade hack night someone asked how many people used the DVORAK keyboard layout. Out of 9 people, 7 used DVORAK and only 2 were using QWERTY. I personally made the switch last Christmas, after 25 years of typing with QWERTY. What do you use? Have you switched to DVORAK? Have you been wanting to make the switch? Has anyone else noticed an increase in adoption of DVORAK lately?"
I find Dvorak a bit tedious. For coding, I prefer Williams, John, not Andy. Sometimes I listen to something light like Bocelli. Moody Blues. But, never metal when I'm coding.
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I started using it because I heard it can reduce wrist stress. I'm not going back; I love the Dvorak layout. Well supported across Mac/Lin/Win, and speeds my typing up significantly. I dunno about the wrist stress part, but it sure does feel like I'm spending less time contorting my hands to type code.
Not only that, but it's a great way to look elitist and pretentious, now that Macs are gaining market share again.
aoeu > asdf!
OMG! Wau!
Every keyboard except DVORAK keyboards that is.
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I've heard that to be the case, and also that Dvorak can't map onto certain international languages at all. True, I'd hate to use Qwerty for writing Younger Futhark, but you can't have everything. Seriously, though, I am not convinced it is possible to map all languages onto a single keyboard layout efficiently. Too many forms (phonetic, alphabetic, syllargy, ideogramatic, etc) and too great a variation in the number of symbols (anything from 16 to 6,000). IMHO, it has been a grievous error to try and make things so cheap and so mass-produced that the very cheapness becomes expensive and the mass-production ceases to be for the masses.
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The irony being that m is in fact in the same place as it is on a qwerty keyboard.
I took an old keyboard and rearranged the key caps so they said "FUCKBILGATES".
Oddly enough, none of the Windows users could type with it - even after years of computer use, they're not touch typists ...
John Dvorak ! ;)
That's odd. Most of the Windows users I know can hit Ctrl-Alt-Del without looking at the keyboard. Usually they are too busy cussing to look at anything.
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I'm guessing you mention "left handed mouse setup" cause you are a right-hander? I think it's great to use the mouse with your non-dominant hand to increase brain plasticity. I use left hand for work mouse, right hand at home.
I've also got a deadly coworker torture technique I use at work, inspired by left hand mouse use. I put the monitor, keyboard and mouse at a sharp sharp angle with piles of garbage stacked on the right side -- so you must sit with the chair slanted looking at the desk and the only possible way one could use the mouse with their right hand is if they reach across their chest and break their wrist to bend their hand at a 45 degree angle with their arm HAHAHA. --- Secret number two is to crank up mouse sensitivty to absolute max, this increase your own productivity anyway once you are used to it, then when they TRY with their lefthand and see it is hopeless they finally contort their body and realize they can't even control my mouse with their right hand... oh it's GREAT. The look on their faces when they are just trying to show me how to do something for the new project... Don't forget to put every other setting out of whack -- double clicking at highest speed with 1 pixel movement max, I actually had a guy give me a priceless comment the other day after 10 failed attempts "Your computer doesn't support double clicking??"
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Is it faster than two fingered touch typing?
Never got the hang of proper touch typing.
I can type with two fingers at ridiculous speeds with pinpoint accuracy.
No I dont need to look at my keyboard or even my monitor. I can stare out the window and still type fine (including backspacing).
yeah, that's about it
A co-worker was seriously messed when the IT department replace the ESC key with a red PANIC button and told him under no circumstances should he ever use the PANIC button. It was an interesting sight as people told him to disregard IT policy by pressing the red button and he panicked at the thought.
I just did, but now I can't read my screen :(
He meant the lower case "m".
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That's a really big sample!
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Dude, how the hell can you misspell "qwerty"?
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He was probably using a DVORAK keyboard!
That's okay - we'll just take your word for it!
* Home row -- Dvorak: 66%, Qwerty: 32%
* Top row -- Dvorak: 24%, Qwernty: 49%
* Finger movement (arguably less scientifically 'hard' piece of data) -- Dvorak: 367m, Qwerty: 602m
You left out:
* Coworkers leaving your computer alone due to DVORAK layout -- priceless
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