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Offline Cobra

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Reply #20 on: June 12, 2005, 01:12:07 pm
i don't really get the Dvorak keyboard layout. regular is just fine, and i'm so used to it i can type like a full sentence in 4-10 seconds. :D
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Reply #21 on: June 12, 2005, 03:31:21 pm
I type slower than an arthritic ant, no matter what the layout....
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Reply #22 on: June 12, 2005, 03:42:26 pm
I could hit 70+ WPM with QWERTY, but Dvorak is so much easier :p ...

Hardest part, is when you think of a letter, and the wrong hand reaches for it, across the entire keyboard :ick:
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Reply #23 on: June 12, 2005, 03:56:12 pm
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Originally posted by Admiral Nelson
In case anyone is really interested in this subject, both the story that QWERTY was designed to slow typists down to minimize jamming, and the idea that the Dvorak keyboard is demonstably superior to QWERTY are untrue:
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Reply #24 on: June 12, 2005, 04:00:15 pm
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Reply #25 on: June 12, 2005, 06:06:02 pm
I'm too lazy to read the long article at the moment. Regardless of what it says, I'm still going to try Dvorak. Anyone that doesn't want to doesn't have to.

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i am tempted to try and change the school computers to it :p

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Reply #26 on: June 12, 2005, 06:11:14 pm
seriously! :p
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Reply #27 on: June 12, 2005, 08:17:47 pm
how would you play an FPS? WASD would be FUBARed
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Reply #28 on: June 13, 2005, 01:09:29 am
You could reconfigure your WASD to whatever it is under dvorak.  
But honestly, who uses it today? anyone professionally?  I guess it's a personal prefrence.
 

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Reply #29 on: June 13, 2005, 02:19:00 am
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seriously! :p


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Reply #30 on: June 13, 2005, 07:33:44 am
I've just done it to my computer here, and the teacher came over to grade it, and he went to type the comments right on the project, and it was all screwed up... So i pressed Ctrl-Shift and switched it back, and he asked me what i did, and i explained, and he gave me extra credit :p !
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Reply #31 on: June 13, 2005, 08:16:15 am
When I tried it out a number of months ago, I actually switched key positions of the keys on my keyboard. Was... interesting. I presume if one wanted to use it permanently, one could have a graphical overlay of some sort to rescuse any poor confused masses who come by to use one's computer.
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Reply #32 on: June 13, 2005, 09:29:24 am
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I've just done it to my computer here, and the teacher came over to grade it, and he went to type the comments right on the project, and it was all screwed up... So i pressed Ctrl-Shift and switched it back, and he asked me what i did, and i explained, and he gave me extra credit :p !
:lol: :yes:

What sort of project was it?
 

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Reply #33 on: June 13, 2005, 10:21:43 am
What does Dvorak have to do with keyboards?
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Reply #34 on: June 13, 2005, 02:54:43 pm
Dvorak is an alternative keyboard format to QWERTY. Please read the first few posts for an explanation.

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You could reconfigure your WASD to whatever it is under dvorak.

Or you could just ctrl+shift back to QWERTY.
 

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Reply #35 on: June 13, 2005, 03:18:55 pm
It's a keyboard layout, not a composer. :)
 

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Reply #36 on: June 13, 2005, 04:34:59 pm
It's also a common last name around here. :nod:
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Reply #37 on: June 13, 2005, 05:18:53 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
it's letters ae arainged to allow you to type faster, as opposed to the qwerty keyboard wich was designed specificly to slow typeing down so the mechanisms of the typerwiters of the late nineteenth centurey wouldn't get fouled up.
This is an exaggeration. It separates common letter pairs so people couldn't hit them so quickly that the mechanism jammed.
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Reply #38 on: June 13, 2005, 05:27:36 pm
How is that different from what bob wrote?
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Reply #39 on: June 13, 2005, 09:15:10 pm
Slowing someone down is not the same thing as seperating Q from U or A from M.

One can demonstrably design a keyboard intended to speed up your typing (in the same manner as Dvorak layouts) but which intentionally seperated common digraphs. In other words, the two things are not rigidly coupled.
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