Can you touch type? And when did you learn?

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by VetLegion


There's no proper evidence that the Dvorak scheme is faster. It's an urban myth.

Absolutely false. It is definitely faster, for people with similar experience on both schemes. I have used Dvorak probably about 33% and QWERTY 66%, and am slightly faster in Dvorak. It's also (as stated above) much better on your wrists (you don't cramp up as fast, and you end up with much less soreness after a long day of typing).

[VetLegion]

Personal experience of one man doesn't qualify as evidence.

[Ben Kenobi]

In grade 8 is when I first started to learn how to touchtype.

I had a keyboarding class that was also offered with shop and home ec so you would take all three of them together.

Probably the best class overall. The keyboarding I use everyday, but I can't say that the shop class has been much useful to me so far.

[Aeson]

Poly (and CFC) really reduced my typing speed. I used to only chat and didn't use any punctuation or capitalization. Like that I could type really fast.

Then I started thinking when I was typing and it was all downhill from there.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Personal experience of one man doesn't qualify as evidence.

It does in court, especially when the one man is Bill Clinton and the experience is Monica Lewinsky

[Skanky Burns]

I learnt to touch type just by using computers. I was writing code before even taking my first computer course at school. It was 10th grade before we actually had a typing class, and that was on typewriters. That didn't increase my skill much, although I became aware that I have some bad habits like typing 'y' and 'b' with either hand.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I'm sure my keying habits are bad habits. I type B with my right index and Y with my left index.

I never use the right hand Shift, Control, and Alt keys.

I also have a Control+S twitch. After I type a paragraph I'll often hit Control+S to save what I just typed. This is fine if I'm using Notepad or Word or something, but when I'm typing in a browser it tries to save the page and I have to double take for a moment while I figure out what happened.

(I did that twice while typing this post.)

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Personal experience of one man doesn't qualify as evidence.

Yet it's more evidence than you have

The problem with comparing the two is it's relatively rare to find people who can type in both equaly well; pretty much anyone you find will be skilled more in one than the other, but it's incredibly hard to tell the difference (and which difference comes from skill as opposed to from dvorak benefits). The sample size is simply too low to mean anything; and most people who use dvorak are still more experienced=more skilled at QWERTY (at least for now).

[VetLegion]

That's a lot of words just to agree with me that there's no proper evidence about the superiority of the Dvorak layout

[Pekka]

There's lots of things I can do by touch and not looking. Typing, making a sandwich, I can get that bra unhooked, I can pick my nose, I can pinch you, I can do tons of things not looking and just purely by touch.

[snoopy369]

You're a dangerous man, Pekka. Dangerous.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by VetLegion
That's a lot of words just to agree with me that there's no proper evidence about the superiority of the Dvorak layout

Lack of evidence is not evidence of lacking.

[snoopy369]

Indeed. If you want to know if a Sonic Blast is better than a DQ Blizzard, and had the option of either asking someone who has never had one, or asking someone who has, which do you prefer?

[Heraclitus]

VetLegion is a QWERT faschist.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by snoopy369
You're a dangerous man, Pekka. Dangerous.

QFT