Typedvorak.com a place where everyone can share their experiances with learning and using the Dvorak keyboard layout, So I’ll start with me…
I have worked in the IT field for many years but have always been a hunt and peck typist. I could type pretty fast that way but it wasn’t at all efficient. It really showed when using an instant messenger. My colleges would type so fast they were on to something else before I could reply! (which always made the conversations very confusing) I really needed to learn to type.
I Never took a typing class in school, but have attempted to learn to touch type on my own… usually a couple days of: adf adf adf jjk jjk jjk llk llk llk….. and I went back to hunt and peck.
A few months ago I tried again, I found some free typing program and began…. adf adf asd asd…. my wrists and hands hurt, but I was determined this time, then somehow I stumbled across something about the Dvorak keyboard, I had heard of it before but this time I actually read about it… then I started searching and searching, reading everything I could about it. I decided right then. “I’m going Dvorak”
asd asd became aoe aoe, and already my wrists felt some relief….
I’m no speed demon yet but faster than I ever have been for sure!
So pop off and rearrange those keys and tell us your story!
I have just started learning today!