12-30-2004, 08:24 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| What Keyboard Layout do you use?
I use the QWERTY keyboard layout, although I'm going to try and convert to Dvorak. | 
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12-30-2004, 08:46 AM
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| Me QWERTY (ooh that was easy to write).
What's Dvorak? | |
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12-30-2004, 10:00 AM
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#3 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by drippingwet Me QWERTY (ooh that was easy to write).
What's Dvorak? | I use the QWERTY-layout and am not considering any convertion.
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12-30-2004, 10:08 AM
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#4 | | Din Älskling
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| I've thought about Dvorak. I'm not sure I really need to type that much faster though. I only hit 60-70 wpm, but my job is currently not typing intensive. Still, I could use an ease up on my wrists...
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12-30-2004, 10:24 AM
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| whatever's put in front of me...
QWERTY mostly..besides my typing skills are akin to a drunk trying to run.
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12-30-2004, 10:51 AM
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| QWERTY - why would I want to change?
I can manage ~80wpm on a decent keyboard with reasonable accuracy. | |
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12-30-2004, 10:55 AM
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| I'm a qwerty person myself. The other one looks scary so I think I'll stay with what I know. 
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12-30-2004, 12:47 PM
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| QWERTY. With anything else, WASD would have no meaning  | |
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12-31-2004, 09:37 PM
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#9 | | Feline Groovy
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| QWERTY here, too. I do 100-110 wpm (until I start to think about it, then it drops to around 90) so I figure I'd lose too much ground with a switch to be worth it, even for the novelty factor. | |
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12-31-2004, 11:08 PM
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| say...if you learnt the other one would you still be as good in QWERTY coz wouldn't you have references in your mind to where everything should be? | |
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01-01-2005, 01:56 AM
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| QWERTY, where can i find a wpm counter?
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01-01-2005, 02:54 AM
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| Am I the only one here who uses oiuyt?
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01-02-2005, 09:26 AM
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#13 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by whtouche Am I the only one here who uses oiuyt? | Uh-oh...I wonder what he thinks of that..!
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01-02-2005, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by whtouche Am I the only one here who uses oiuyt? | ... I think this is a reference to the arabian keyboard - the good old 'poiuyt' as its more usually referred to. I had not even heard of Dvorak keyboards  | |
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01-02-2005, 02:52 PM
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| I use QWERTY. I'm scared of the Dvorak ones. I'd have to relearn how to type. But it's something I have been considering. Then I could start from scratch and learn to type PROPERLY (I just hit the keys with whatever finger is available...hey it works).
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01-02-2005, 08:01 PM
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| The problem with Dvorak is that if you use one at home, your school, library, friends, etc., will all still have QWERTY.
Also, it took me a few years to learn to type QWERTY at any reasonable speed. (I was never taught to type, I just kinda figured it out.) Learning Dvorak would take quite a while as well, maybe not quite as long, but it would interrupt, for example, my fencing.net posting. And that's just plain unacceptable. | 
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01-02-2005, 11:37 PM
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Originally Posted by The Armourer ... I think this is a reference to the arabian keyboard - the good old 'poiuyt' as its more usually referred to. I had not even heard of Dvorak keyboards | nope, it's really not.
personally, i use oiuyt a lot.
i use oiuyt at home.... in the library when there's no one around.... in the dark, although i prefer the light so i can see, even though i don't need to anymore.... hell, even sometimes at fencing competitions....
*cough*
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01-03-2005, 01:59 AM
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs The problem with Dvorak is that if you use one at home, your school, library, friends, etc., will all still have QWERTY.
Also, it took me a few years to learn to type QWERTY at any reasonable speed. (I was never taught to type, I just kinda figured it out.) Learning Dvorak would take quite a while as well, maybe not quite as long, but it would interrupt, for example, my fencing.net posting. And that's just plain unacceptable. | It's actually not hard to switch over to a Dvorak keyboard layout on other computers. It takes like a minute to do it, and then you're good to go. and when you're done, just undo it! (unless the computer has like, a sucky thing that doesn't let you change the settings) | |
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01-03-2005, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by cornflower It's actually not hard to switch over to a Dvorak keyboard layout on other computers. It takes like a minute to do it, and then you're good to go. and when you're done, just undo it! (unless the computer has like, a sucky thing that doesn't let you change the settings) | Or, it's not installed. | |
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01-05-2005, 07:29 AM
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| and then keys say the wrong thing for what you are typing. Too confusing to encourage change.
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