I now do all my typing in Dvorak. I'm a web developer writing mostly PHP, HTML, and CSS. I average about 50wpm. It took me 6 weeks of daily use to be able to switch solely to Dvorak. While I was learning, I tried to do everything in Dvorak unless it was time critical.
Before learning Dvorak, I was a 40wpm QWERTY typist, but trapped in limbo somewhere between hunt-and-peck and touch typing; I would use all my fingers, but I had to look at the keyboard every-so-often. Because I couldn't touch-type in QWERTY when I begun, I can't say whether I could touch-type in QWERTY. But I can still manage a swift rate. I do however, find myself reverting to Dvorak if I have been sitting at a QWERTY computer for a while without typing.
My biggest gripe is gaming -- Using Windows and using the keyboard layout switching capability I have to switch the input mode every time I start a game -- most games look at the letters.
Funnily enough, Quake III Arena is the only game I've seen that would ignore the input mode while you were playing, seeing WASD as WASD, but if you were chatting it would go Dvorak (,AOE) -- Why don't more games do this? Once again, id was ahead of its time...
A tip for those keen to learn: don't bother with re-labelling your keys! Just print out the layout and attach it to the bottom of your monitor and use that when you're unsure which key is F or G. Maybe think about getting a label-less Das Keyboard;)
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I now do all my typing in Dvorak. I'm a web developer writing mostly PHP, HTML, and CSS. I average about 50wpm. It took me 6 weeks of daily use to be able to switch solely to Dvorak. While I was learning, I tried to do everything in Dvorak unless it was time critical.
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Before learning Dvorak, I was a 40wpm QWERTY typist, but trapped in limbo somewhere between hunt-and-peck and touch typing; I would use all my fingers, but I had to look at the keyboard every-so-often. Because I couldn't touch-type in QWERTY when I begun, I can't say whether I could touch-type in QWERTY. But I can still manage a swift rate. I do however, find myself reverting to Dvorak if I have been sitting at a QWERTY computer for a while without typing.
My biggest gripe is gaming -- Using Windows and using the keyboard layout switching capability I have to switch the input mode every time I start a game -- most games look at the letters.
Funnily enough, Quake III Arena is the only game I've seen that would ignore the input mode while you were playing, seeing WASD as WASD, but if you were chatting it would go Dvorak (,AOE) -- Why don't more games do this? Once again, id was ahead of its time...
A tip for those keen to learn: don't bother with re-labelling your keys! Just print out the layout and attach it to the bottom of your monitor and use that when you're unsure which key is F or G. Maybe think about getting a label-less Das Keyboard