I know this is gonna sound stupid, but what is exactly Dvorak??
And what is so special about it?

Thanks.

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Mayuresh A Kathe
Think Different. Think Better.
mayuresh at vsnl.com

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>From: "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
>To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>Subject: Re: OT musings about psychology of Squeask mailing list members -
unanswerable questions
>Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2000, 11:06 PM
>

> "Mark van Gulik" <ghoul6 at home.com> wrote:
>
>> If you want to try Dvorak, make sure to switch when you have enough slack
>> time, like at the start of a long vacation in which you intend to type a lot
>> (but don't have to *produce* a lot).  I haven't bothered to buy a special
>> Dvorak keyboard, as popping the caps off and rearranging them has worked
>> fine for me.  The keys are different heights in different rows on most
>> keyboards, so the surface will be a little bumpy, but hey - think of a
>> piano.  Also, switch the key caps (or use the new keyboard) on day one, and
>> stick with it religiously.
>>
>
>
> Agreed on all points, but would add a few things.
>
> First, speed is only one advantage to Dvorak, and perhaps the least
> important.  Comfort is a bigger deal, especially if it turns out to have
> an impact on RSI's.
>
> Second, I didn't find rearranging the keycaps to help so much.  The
> bumpiness was annoying.  The keys will be in the qwerty arrangement on
> other keyboads.  And most of all, if you really want to learn to type
> fast, you can't be looking at the keys, anyway.  As a small tip on this
> angle, note that you can do an exhaustive search of 30 keys pretty
> darned quickly, if you type out a bunch of them at a timeand then just
> scan for the character you are looking for.  (admittedly, hitting one,
> looking, and then hitting another, would take a while.  so don't do that
> :)).
>
> Finally, you don't *have* to use typing tutors.  For me, spending an
> hour or a few typing out the alphabet was enough to learn where the keys
> are; after that it just took a lot of typing a lot does the trick.  Then
> again, I only type around 40-60 wpm, not the impressive 80wpm described
> above, so time with the tutors probably does help.
>
> Hmm, interesting that so many people on the Squeak list use Dvorak....
>
> Lex
>
>