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> Don't learn Dvorak For me, this list resonates (I use Colemak), but I would maybe call it "Things to consider before learning another keyboard layout". It's
by thatswrong0 8y ago
> Don't learn Dvorak
For me, this list resonates (I use Colemak), but I would maybe call it "Things to consider before learning another keyboard layout".
It's almost never a problem in my life. Someone using my computer? Switch the keyboard back to Qwerty for them. Me using someone else's? I can still do okay with Qwerty.. but I'm never using someone else's computer for longer than 10 minutes.
It _was_ significantly easier to learn to touch type a whole new keyboard layout than it was to un-do my terrible Qwerty habits I picked up from shit-talking people while playing Age of Empires 2 as a kid (I tried and failed for a while to touch type Qwerty).
For the record, I never plan on going back. I'm a big fan of Colemak.
- jimmaswell 8y agoMust be a YMMV because I learned touch typing just fine after knowing qwerty in an inefficient self taught way. I took a class on it for half a high school year and it paid off very well.
- howard941 8y agoMy experiences duplicate yours w/r/t learning QWERTY. Self taught touch typing the wrong way followed by a class during high school for the right way. Alternate layouts don't work for me since I can't take them with me to new keyboard. I learned that layouts matter back when some idiot swapped Caps lock with the Control key putting both where they are now, in the wrong place. Split keyboards are another story entirely, comfortable, compatible with QWERTY touch typing, and the outward down tilt and separation solved my RSI issues. Definitely YMMV.