Anyone else using a dvorak keyboard?

[runtmms]

... Or am I the only one inflicting this insanity upon themselves?

I always wanted to try a dvorak keyboard. I got way more excited than I should have when I saw that was an option in SwiftKey Tablet.

When entering text I like holding the phone landscape and typing with my thumbs. The split keyboard SwiftKey Tablet has is great for this.

I didn't know if the benefits of the dvorak keyboard would translate to thumb typing. I tried several test sentences and I believe if I ever fully learn the keyboard it will be faster and require less thumb travel than a QWERTY keyboard.

Anyone else trying this?

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[sdoo25]

No since that would screw me up at work with my QWERTY keyboard. Don't want to unlearn years of typing style.

 

[runtmms]

Strangely, I've had no problem with that. I think it's because thumb typing is so different than normal typing.

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[Dylan Lenton]

I use one. It took me about a day to get used to it. It's way faster as long as your screen is fairly large you'll have no problem. The vowels being grouped together is much more intuitive but it leads to more errors if you're not accurate. ie. jest, jist, just are all acceptable even though I use 'just' only.

 

[runtmms]

Glad I'm not the only one. I'm still using it and have no intention of switching back.

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[P05TMAN]

Glad I'm not the only one. I'm still using it and have no intention of switching back.

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I do.....anyone know how I could change the stock HTC one ime to dvorak? Can I just add to the android manifest for that app maybe?

 

[Peter Cross]

Yup--learned to touch-type Qwerty at age 17 in 1957 fall, I think. But wide awareness is one of my autodidact angles, and was aware of Qwerty and the whole kb - typewriters story from age 23 or so? Every 2-3 years for 25 years, MOL, Harpers or Atlantic would do a story. Couple of years ago, after 48 years of QWERTY, the coming of Common Core testing loomed, and I started to talk to parents in church, etc. about their kids getting an advantage, a) learning earlier [developmentally most kids can learn to touch-type at 7-8, many ancillary benefits on spelling, etc.], and learning Dvorak or, now, Colemak (uses now-standard computer shortcut keys). What took Dvorak 5 years or more [checking out a variant layout against the language's word patterns and character frequencies] is done in a ??? hours run with software. A vet with 2 fingers gone could have a custom kb layout designed at minimum cost! Add predictive typing, and you get faster, make up your own short-keys set, and you have a chance of winning the world speed championship (so far, held only by Dvorak typists?). There's a natural limit to QWERTY--your fingers run into each other. Alternatives--voice recognition progresses. Everyone can pick their own mix. I think there is brain-sensing work going on so someone paralyzed can "think" letters into a computer. Oh Brave New World! Now if we can massively shift other, much bigger ideas and skills so we don't toss out 90,000 years work in the next 200 or so, progress like this might pay off. ===\=\ Oh, sorry--yes, I decided if I was going to have credibility with the parents I talked to, I had to do it myself. A year ago or so, using Ten Thumbs tutor, my favorite, I retrained--not hard, some dumb fingers want to stay in the past--they are the Republican ones! Now looking for the app for my Samsung 3-G phone--I'm a new cell user.

 

[zorak950]

I don't type anywhere near fast enough for QWERTY to be a burden even on a proper keyboard. On a phone screen, the position of individual letters seems even less meaningful since you don't use a phone keyboard like a physical one.