I'm up to 35 words per minute now, and it feels like it will be getting easier very quickly. When I'm in the groove, I can probably do 40 or 45 right now. I'm still making a lot of mistakes when I'm thinking about it too much; I hit O instead of S, F instead of Y, and U instead of F. All of these are direct QWERTY (that's an odd word to type on Dvorak) errors. I've beaten the L for P one and the punctuation, so it's only a matter of time. :)
I am also sometimes having trouble getting O and E transposed, but it's still improving. A month of slow typing has been quite a pain for me, and I had to switch to QWERTY a couple of times when I needed speed. I now am a slower typer on QWERTY than I am on Dvorak though -- feels like it anyway, I have to be looking at the keyboard almost all the time. I'm debating whether to keep QWERTY proficiency, but in the long run it'll probably be worth it.
Anyway, just a status update... :)
~Sam
I am also sometimes having trouble getting O and E transposed, but it's still improving. A month of slow typing has been quite a pain for me, and I had to switch to QWERTY a couple of times when I needed speed. I now am a slower typer on QWERTY than I am on Dvorak though -- feels like it anyway, I have to be looking at the keyboard almost all the time. I'm debating whether to keep QWERTY proficiency, but in the long run it'll probably be worth it.
Anyway, just a status update... :)
~Sam
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Re: Getting there
Tue, March 23, 2004 - 12:45 AMThat's cool that you're making progress. keep up the good work.
I also find it interesting that you keep transposing O and E, as I did the same thing for quite awhile after I had the rest of the keyboard down (well, except for J and K which I transposed for nearly as long).
Once you have the basics down though, it's just a matter of usage and speed. The details will all fall into place.
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Re: Getting there
Tue, March 23, 2004 - 7:59 AMHeh, I've been on dvorak for almost 3 years now, and I still have problems with the 'l' and the '/' being right next to each other. If your font is small enough, you can easily not notice that you hit the wrong one.
Now that you've reached this point, I suspect you'll be unable to go back. Once I was really in the swing of dvorak, qwerty actually became noticeably painful on my hands to type. -
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Fri, March 26, 2004 - 7:03 PMI was just about to say the same thing. It's funny that you are 'debating' whether to keep up your QWERTY proficiency when in all likliehood you won't have a choice. I really wanted to stay 'bilingual' but eventually your brain just commits to a layout. I suck at QWERTY. I have to hunt and peck it. -
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Sat, February 5, 2005 - 6:42 PMI've no problem switching back and forth - other than always typing my name 'cs;jfa' at first, or 'hrodga' if coming back the other direction -- but after the first word I find I have nearly all my original speed w/ the Sholes keyboard, minus the time I spend being catty and griping while doing it.
Perhaps this is because of how I learned - I was working 7-hour days typing as a programmer, and wouldn't burden my employer with my lower rate, so used Sholes @ work and practiced Dvorak only at home for three weeks-month before I switched over at the office. (7 years ago)
Not strictly dvorak, though they have a similar attitude and their boards are dvorak hardware switched: www.kinesis-ergo.com makes the best keyboards ever. $350, but the best you'll ever spend for their contoured keyboard. The keys are arranged on bowls with the arc on the arc of your fingers, cutting finger movement even further.
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