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Dvorak keyboard

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:10 am
by Trinity
Browsing today I came across the dvorak keyboard layout, an alternative to QWERTY. I had never heard of it before, though it is supposed to be a lot better for typing english. Has anyone had any experience with it, or tryied out any other keyboard layouts?

[url=\"http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/index.html\"]http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/index.html[/url]

Dvorak keyboard

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:51 am
by Josh
I\'ve never seen this before...

I personally would never use a keyboard like that lol, I would never get used to the keys...I\'d end up typing the words in jibberish because I\'d be so used to typing normally :\

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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:49 am
by mobil1_oils
[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]Looks pretty wierd, that being said i'd still be willing to give it a try, but i'm still too used to the qwerty keyboard.

One question, where on earth did they get the "dvorak" name from? :s. [/b][/i][/color][/font]

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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:38 am
by Endo
I personally dont think id cope trying it now, anyway. Isnt this keyboard common in other countries? Im sure the german girls translator keys arnt qwerty, although it doesnt show (\'s:]> etc, the key layout is much different.

[quote name=\'Dvorak history\']In the 1920\'s and 30s, August Dvorak and William Dealey designed the "simplified" keyboard now known by Dvorak\'s name.[/quote]

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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:38 am
by mobil1_oils
[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]Ahh, so thats where dvorak comes from... [/b][/i][/color][/font]

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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:33 pm
by radar
Like josh, I too would be typing jibberish.

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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:42 am
by Trinity
It makes some good points, there are lots of words that are typed with one hand on QWERTY:

- opinion
- reward
- agree
- fact
- greater
- regard

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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:10 am
by Endo
Heh wow they are to!

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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:17 pm
by radar
And one word typed with only one row of the keyboard "typewriter"