Advocating Dvorak

zeroweb writes "A group of three faithful Dvorak promoters have launched new website at DvZine.org. The big thing here is a Comic (available in print, pdf and html) describing the history of QWERTY and Dvorak, how and why one should make the switch, and real-life stories of the converted. If you are thinking about making the switch, this could push you over the edge. My favorite line: "It could be the difference between working in your garden at 70 or wearing wrist braces at 40." As someone who started wearing wrist braces at 23, I couldn't agree more - I read this comic, changed my keyboard layout and have been happier ever since."

funny you should say that

[Anonymous Coward]

I had to wear wrist braces because of my QWERTY keyboard as well. Sincerly, Kevin Mitnick

Oh, That Dvorak!

[njfuzzy]

At first, I thought this was about that horrible Internet Troll who calls himself a journalist.

I made the switch years ago

[Underholdning]

I'va nver bnee hpaiper in my lfie! Dovark hsa cahgned my tpyign seped imenmsly!

Actually...

[drivinghighway61]

I find it easier just to use the on-screen keyboard. No messing up because I can't see the keys. And just look: no ttypos!1

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Re:Dvorak is very good

[njcoder]

If you're a developer, imagine how much faster you'll be if Das Keyboard [daskeyboard.com] starts making blank Dvorak keyboards!!!

Even more fun. Imagine how silly people will feel when they sit down at your keyboard and try to type something.

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The best answer is in TFA itself!

[zanderredux]

I just love the following pro argument (on page 25):

Nobody worries that their English gets worse because they learned Spanish

This is sensacional! My english got so much mejor, ya no can hablar two lenguajes at same tiempo!

Re:Only going to work if it became standard

[Anonymous Coward]

Its called "Old Bladder"

Re:Dvorak is very good

[pohl]

I never really got the whole hang of it and ended up ditching it completely a few days later.

Don't feel bad. At least you displayed patience and tenacity by giving it a whole 'few days' worth of effort.

Re:You want to get rid of wrist pain?

[ScrewMaster]

On a side note, Some of my friends never used a computer before the late 90's never mind actually typing.

I'm impressed that you have friends in their late nineties that can even use a computer.

Re:funny you should say that

[IPFreely]

Nice try there Kevin.

Those were not wrist braces.

Re:DVORAK for real world, SysAdmin/Programming use

[mcgroarty]

If you're typing fsck often enough to worry over speed, you've got bigger problems than your key layout.

Re:Wait a minute...

[Mignon]

Exactly where are Å, Ä and Ö placed on a Dvorak keyboard?

Dvorak didn't think of those because he was a classical composer and wasn't into heavy metal. Sheesh, didn't you learn anything in school?

Re:Dvorak is very good

[Ford Prefect]

However, with Gentoo, the keys move around. So, for example, in OpenOffice.org, because I have to type "O" a lot, the "O" is right there where the "D" is in a QWERTY keyboard. The "Q", on the other hand, is assigned to F2, because I rarely need it.

It sounds a bit similar to that new Microsoft keyboard, you know the one where it moves the keys round depending on which are most frequently used, and begins to hide those that haven't been used for a while.

Although it's probably a bit too revealing of (personal, as opposed to Unicode) character for some - a colleague's keyboard consists solely of the keys 'O', 'M', 'G', 'W', 'T' and 'F'.

I suppose it could be worse - the manager's keyboard is now a completely blank piece of plastic.

(Spider Blog: The spider has gone! It had made itself at home on a bank statement for several hours, but after I came back from lunch it was no longer there. More updates as things happen!)

Re:nice to know that Dvorakers are still mortal

[elmlish]

If you go to the Type Dvorak Now page you can see it's titled "TYPE DVOARK NOW!" I'm a fan of Dvorak, but on an advocacy page for a method of typing which is supposedly faster and more Accurate, having obvious misspellings is funny. Cute 'Zine though. ~elmlish~

Re:Not that Dvorak either!

[JustOK]

He's been dead for years. He's a decomposer now.

Re:Staying away for now.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's the exact same reason I don't want to learn french. You could be talking one day, and then french words come out, and your friends are all like, WTF? French? That's unpatriotic. That's what dvorak is. The terrorists keyboard.

Re:Dvorak is very good

[ArsenneLupin]

Why would they have to make a seperate keyboard for Dvorak?

Why would God make people with a blank sense of humor?

Perfect for Treo 650

[Anonymous Coward]

But how do you switch on a PalmOS device with a keyboard too small for a hobbit child?

3 years of typing class?

[simetra]

Come on. WTF is up with that? I can see 2 years, if you flunked the first year. But 3?

Re:DVORAK for real world, SysAdmin/Programming use

[Slak]

Wow! I get 34% more excercise than you! Watch those calories melt away, to say nothing of my fingers' 34% better muscle tone! ;)

Still haven't fixed that backspace key?

[johnny cashed]

Why is your backspace key still mapped to control H? Fix that one first.

Oh, please!

[hawk]

Not again!

Here they come.

The Dvorak proofs.

The debunking of the proofs.

The debunking of the debunkings.

The debunking of those who debunked the debunkers.

[Insert Monty Python break here]

The only solution to YADS is tasteless humor.

Oh, wait. Even better: a compromise. All new Amigas will ship with Dvorak keyboards.

There.

Everyone happy and free of debunked debunkers?

:)

hawk