On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:29:51AM -0500, JoeHill wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:21:11 -0500 Taavi Burns <taavi-LbuTpDkqzNzXI80/IeQp7B2eb7JE58TQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

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I can type about 10WPM on a Dvorak layout (vs >70 on a qwerty), so I haven't exactly switched over myself. The Dvorak layout "feels" better to me, though, even while being thoroughly frustrating because it's so slow. ;)

Isn't Dvorak supposed to speed up typing? I mean as opposed to qwerty, which was originally intended to make typing slower, preventing fast typists from outpacing the old typewriters.

Yes, it is supposed to be faster...once you're up to speed on it. :) I haven't spent the time to increase my speed yet. I suppose I should have made that more explicit. IIRC the statistic for fully switching from qwerty to Dvorak is a 50% increase in WPM and a doubling of accuracy. No, I'm not sure where those numbers came from. www.discover.com has an article in their archives "The Curse of Qwerty" which is where I probably got it from. -- taa /*eof*/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml