Indeed, if you hunt and peck, switching to an alphabetic layout will increase your speed. It just shows that switching from what one is used to will take some time to adjust. There is dvorak version for programmers, with all of special characters easily reachable. Your link agrees that the home keys are used more.
Your link agrees that the hands are more evenly weighted. Your link agrees that the stronger fingers are used more than the weaker fingers. Your article does not make any attempt to debunk whether there is a reduction in RSI as such a study may take years of following at least a couple thousand typists, 1k on QWERTY and 1k on Dvorak to be statistically relevant.
The truth is that early studies do tend to lend credence to the reduction of RSI from the use of the Dvorak keyboard although no control experiments have yet been conducted to show this. The superiority in speed for expert typists of the Dvorak is basically an urban legend but the advantages on the reduction of RSI seems to be supported by early studies and its reduced learning curve for new typists seems to be probable.
Your article does not dispute these. When typewriters were first being marketed to business, there were several competing layouts. Typewriter companies supplied typists trained on their particular layout. There were speed tests done all the time. So much less work required. The fatigue I used to get in both wrists and extending as pain to my right arm have yet to come back since switching.
The thing is that after some time you just get used to work with both layouts. The fingers create their memories for both layouts. The article never said Dvorak is faster for a seasoned typist. Indeed, the article admits that for a seasoned typist, there may be no speed benefit at all. But the article gave seven reasons to switch the last one not a killer for me. So if you are an accomplished typist, consider the the five other reasons to switch and weigh them.
If you are not an accomplished typist, consider the six. What do you do on notebooks? There are no dvorak layouts for notebooks afaik. And typing blind is just much harder if there are the wrong keys on the keyboard. I can type wpm comfortably with a qwerty keyboard. This is a solution in search of a problem, methinks — which is why it never caught on.
The world would not be a better place if people could type faster. I believe it is more likely that voice-to-text will effectively replace the qwerty keyboard, than the Dvorkak model.
Look what has happened since then. I am a unix programmer, use a dvorak layout, and work in vi and emacs every day of my working life.
As for why I made the switch? I was finding that my wrists were in tremendous pain by the end of the work day. If you hunt-and-peck or type slowly looking at the letters on the keys, Dvorak can help you learn to touch-type.
It helped ME increase my typing speed and finish school essays quickly. Help for learning Dvorak is in dvzine. Yes it did reduce the pain in my fingers. I would have given this a try till you said it was cool like a mac…… now cool like linux and i am in. I am a little worried about all of the virtual keyboards I use. As I increasingly type on my mobile devices like cell phones, internet tablet, ereaders, etc. I am using more and more software keyboards that are impossible to change the layout of.
There may be some benefit to using a DVORAK layout, but I am finding myself using a regular keyboard less and less… only when I am doing serious tasks like programming and video editing do I get on a computer.
And programming? When I try switching to dvorak, I love programming because the braces are so much easier to get to. On small touchscreen systems with onscreen software keyboards, any layout designed for traditional physical desktop keyboards is a joke. Just tap a square for one of those letters, or drag in a certain direction for one of the other, less-common letters or symbols.
There is a game available for learning and practice also. From now on, my desktop board will always be Dvorak or Colemak I intend to learn and be able to use both , and MessagEase will be on any phone or tablet I get. Very simply, no competing keyboard has offered enough advantage to warrant a change. In the six years since we published that article there has been no attempt to refute any of our factual claims, to discredit the GSA study, or to resurrect the Navy study.
The same article also says that it does put more combinations on the home keys, it does do a better job of balancing the use of both hands, it does put more use on the stronger fingers and it does require less movements of the fingers over time. Does this make you type faster? No, not really. Does it reduce the time for an non-typist to learn to touch type? Yes, by a small margin but a margin nevertheless. Does it reduce the risk of RSI?
Early research tends to support this. That article was written in and further research lends even more credence to this. All that article shows is that there is no speed increase for an accomplished touch-typist and that there is no economical advantage save for the possibility of the cost of mitigating RSI in switching to Dvorak for typing pools in corporate America.
It seems to me that Dvorak is only useful for Uni-language people like Americans. I type in 3 languages myself. But it is solvable using the C instead. And I like it that the — is easy to reach.
I switched my MacBookPro keyboard to Dvorak physically moved the keys! I can see this being a problem for lefties. By placing all the vowels on the left and the most used consonants on the right, you are more likely to switch between left and right hand for each letter. IE, const, vow, const, vow, const, vow, etc going right, left, right, left, right, etc. This is one of the reasons it is easier to type on the Dvorak and reduces RSI. For a lefty, it will still be right, left, right, left, right, left, etc.
Granted, more consonants than vowels but I do not think it will be prohibitive. Also, the Dvorak English keyboard is available as Dvorak LH and Dvorak RH so yes, there may be a trade-off for left handers but a left-hand keyboard is available.
Well its a lot better to have somethign everone can use than something that is a little bit more efficient but less universal. Most users are not going to type fast enough to make good use of the Dork sorry Dvorack slip there oops.
Either get over it, or alter your key map to map it to the CTRL key. Problem solved, either way. It seems to me that Dvorak is for people who type or retype documents for a living — where speed and errors are an issue. For many of us, programming, doing email, writing blogs shorter ones anyway I think the added efficiency is just not worth being a penguin at the party.
LIke code, not everything needs to be optimised to be perfectly functional — and the language issues will block it from ever really becoming widely accepted. If you suffer from RSI and still think Dvorak is all about optimizing for speed, you just might be a red-neck. Cut-copy-paste can be kept in the same position although different letters if you must but you can also use the Fn keys that do not change.
The shortcuts were the main killer for me, in making the switch to DVORAK — so your shortcut solution might make a full-time convert of me. I would rather not use Fn keys, as they r normally at the top of the keyboard — therefore represent a significant finger stretch, negating the benefit of minimising finger movement of the DVORAK layout. When you change the keyboard layout, it maps the glyphs to different keystroke codes.
It does not change the keystroke code. If you wish, there are ways to change the key mapping for cut-copy-paste but this may vary for each Windows version or for each application. C is in a somewhat awkward position, but tolerable. Many Logitech keyboards allow you to remove and replace the keys easily to match any layout. Check in their user forum to be sure.
Key-loggers virtually never intercept the keyboard at the raw scancode level. My first thought was the same as many. Then my second thought eased that worry. Of course the best case would be if everyone adopted the best keyboard and then Dvorak would be on every English computer.
Much to my surprise I find that I am now actually faster on the Qwerty keyboard that before, even though I am now using two different layouts! The point of the Dvorak and other non Qwerty layouts is that it reduces overall finger moment and makes the typing more efficient. On a final note to regular computer users, try to get to one Pilates class a week.
Yes, this works for the men too. At Computer Science Lab at the University of Delaware about 27 years ago I reprogrammed the key map prom in my z19 terminal to support a Dvorak layout replaced the prom with an eprom. And the keys on the z19 came off easily and could be relocated, which allowed the physical keyboard to match. It was amazing… it seemed that your fingers would stay on the home row almost constantly. Loved it. I like typing on new layouts, though i didnt know about this one.
I hope i ll find to buy one.. It might be good for you geek cred, but its not good for your employability and makes using a computer more complicated than just sticking with the tried and tested method. Its far more healthy to move your fingers around a lot so you do not cramp up, it keeps the joints moving and blood flowing.
This is even more relevant if you have arthritis I do as keeping any joint relatively stationary becomes painful fast. Any speed benefit is offset by having to exercise your fingers in other ways more frequently.
Fallacy 1 — Knowing dvorak versus qwerty does nothing neither positive nor negative for your employability, especially knowing that OSes allow you to alter the keymappings at any time. Fallacy 2 — RSI is caused by inflammation of the nerve sheaths in the carpel tunnel. You can get RSI with large movements, and with short movements. A couple of things: 1 Scholes did not invent the typewriter, but was the first to patent and produce succesful typewriters; several inventors created typewriters before him.
But the main, unresolved problem with the Dvorak layout you showed here is : how on earth are you supposed to represent all those accented characters which have to be used in every language, with the only exception of English?
Your second point is especially noteworthy. Most of those reasons are truly pathetic, and yet the Dvorites are blindly singing their praises. The issue about speed, however, is still theoretical. I would be all for learning the Dvorak layout if rigorous, peer-reviewed studies showed it had even half the benefits the Dvorites claim. But nobody seems to be doing such studies. Especially the Dvorites.
Use a version of Dvorak with added characters using either dead keys U. Use a regional version optimized for whatever language. The letter arrangement of the keys is optimized for the letter frequency of that particular language, just as Dvorak is for English. Use the Compose key. Interestingly the arguments are the same as for Esperanto, that language your granny will rapidly learn, and talk fluently in with confidence to its correctness.
Yes, I talk Esperanto. So I would consider: 1. I would like to have a dvorak keyboard you can transport and plug in a USB socket, wired to look like a qwertz! Dvorak might flow into my ideal of a pan-european keyboard for the European Union, where latin-a resides on the same spot as greek-alpha and cyrillic-a. For letter frequency of use FOU for English prose I include punctuation and also the space key which for me is also a valid letter as far as finger usage analysis goes.
The FOU analysis was made from a 9,, character nine point six million source data file which contains total of 1,, words plus spaces, punctuation and formatting from modern prose. It took about 2 or 3 months to get to the point where I could type decently, but after that it was a piece of cake.
It has been a month now. I am typing well but slow. I have not been practising as much as I should have so that is no surprise. I am actually better than I thought I would be due to my lack of practise and I think I would be back up to speed in another month.
After three months, I was back up to speed. I then changed my phone to an Android and changed the layout there also. As for my wrist, the pain from typing is gone. The first month was agonising but I am glad I made the move. Your experience with Dvorak very closely mimmics mine.
I switched around Dec. The first few weeks were hell, but by the third week I finally saw hints of what was to come, as I was slightly less confused, more able to remember the key locations, and began typing a few common key sequences.
I was stuck in the 30s range for quite a while, and now I am trying to get my average speed into the 50s. Still, I would consider my current speed acceptable. After about a month into Dvorak, I still occasionally ran into confusion when typing, and by a month and a half the confusion was mostly gone. Now it has been about two and a half months and everything has progressed very nicely.
I am still generally in the 40s in typing tests, but I get some very nice bursts of speed… eventually I will catch up on the problem sequences and make it to the 50s and up regularly. My accuracy is quickly improving, and I have to put minimal effort—both mentally and physically—to type. I am actually trying to learn Colemak now so I can switch between the two layouts Dvorak and Colemak at will and I am having some success.
Similarly, once I get even better accuracy, I should rarely even need backspace, so its original location should not be too bad in the end. If you can give me a hand sometime no great rush with optimizing the key placements I could do a version of Neo for the Maltron 3D two handed keyboards.
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Best Linux Laptops. Then select "keyboard", and "US-Dvorak". On computers running Mac OS 9. There is a second "Dvorak" layout which reverts to qwerty when the command key is held down. Note: I have downloaded the following binary files from the net, but haven't tested them. I have no idea how well they work. Caveat emptor. Here are some platform-independent ones.
To use them, simply save the appropriate file and give it as an argument to xmodmap. You're also welcome to copy and use my keymap bourne shell script , which does the dirty work for you. For those who would prefer to purchase a hard-wired keyboard, keyalt. Just switch your keyboard to Dvorak, go to the web site, and you're ready to start typing.
August Dvorak, Nellie L. Merrick, William L. Stan Liebowitz and Stephen E. I got most of these links from his page, and he may have more since I last looked. Includes some comments on the Dvorak layout and repetitive strain injury , which agree with my own experiences.
The very first typing layout was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the s. The goal of this layout was literally designed to be slow and inefficient so that the typewriters would not jam from typing too fast on them. Sholes accomplished this by putting vowels and other common letters far away from each other and by not placing many of the most used letters on the home row. It is also the main reason that other layouts have not become more popular and are virtually unknown to the general public.
In the s the Dvorak layout was invented by Dr. August Dvorak. The goal of the design was to be fast and efficient, so Dr. Dvorak placed the most common consonants and vowels on the home row, with the exception of the letter U:.
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