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I'm also a happy Dvorak convert. Yes, it's tough at first. Switches back to Qwerty also take some getting used to.* I believe there is a universal benefit of l
by 1MachineElf 3y ago
I'm also a happy Dvorak convert. Yes, it's tough at first. Switches back to Qwerty also take some getting used to.*
I believe there is a universal benefit of learning a non-QWERTY layout. Many people learn QWERTY first when they are young, and as a side-effect, they carry with themselves the baggage of bad typing habits. While making an intentional effort to touch type with QWERTY can help significantly, I believe it can't compare to the benefits of starting from fresh with something new.
*I think I was lucky to have a job where I needed to make those switches often, so I gained proficiency quickly.
- Zambyte 3y ago> Many people learn QWERTY first when they are young, and as a side-effect, they carry with themselves the baggage of bad typing habits. Absolutely! This was a huge factor in my decision to switch. I learned to type quickly on QWERTY mostly from FPS shooters - which meant that I would start typing while moving my hand from my mouse to my keyboard, which meant that I would type much more with my left hand than my right. I probably used my left hand for 60 to 70% of the keyboard, rather than 50/50 for each hand. I really wanted to learn to type properly, but breaking old habits on such a familiar layout was hard.
- afarviral 3y agoRight, so it may not be so much about the supposed superiority of an alternate layout but about learning the layout well, which is hard to do once you have a decade or more of bad habits. That's a new take for me, having switched to colmak-dh (and training qwerty and even getting much faster on it at the same time).