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[pet lover]

Yay! I finally found it. Feel really stupid as well...took me long enough. Thank you!

[mithridates]

The best thing about this keyboard is that on a day like today when it's sunny, I feel sleepy but have a few dozen pages to type is that I can almost doze off while typing as my fingers pretty much don't have to move at all and I know exactly where the keys are thanks to the keyboard itself remaining qwerty. It's great not having to have my fingers dance all around the keyboard like they used to.
Remember the word stewardess? Words like that are what make qwerty annoying.

[numazawa]

I see we're clocking about 85% on the question.

Next time, let's shoot the moon with "Do you know how to stereotype?"

[mithridates]

One more good thing about Dvorak if you're paranoid that you're being tracked: keystroke recording programs will record what you write as being something like this:
Tdakw rodkkt mfij ;smdkjglu pgvd kjg;e Gl skjdo ,soh; kjdt ,slqk ja.d alt ghda ,jak tsfqod ,ogkglue Tsf ial d.dl ;,dao ,gkjsfk kjd ;,dao ygpkdo vls,glue Gkq; kofde

[DGB]

I honed my typing skills on the powerhouse that is the Apple IIe. Ah, sneaking in a 5 1/4 floppy of number munchers or oregon trail when the teacher wasnt looking. I'm suprised I learned anything at all, except how to kill grizzleys, caulk wagons, and eat words with an 'oo' sound like 'hoot'.

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[Free World]

Quiet Aunt Zelda
Willie Sits eXams
Every Dad Cares
Run From Vicky To Get Betty
Young Henry Never Used Joe's Money
I'm King , (comma)
Oh Lloyd . (stop)
Please

That's how we were taught in my highschool keyboarding course.

[mithridates]

I found a Dvorak typing course for those who want a bit more structured approach than just trying to type things until they get faster:

http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/Dvorak/dvorak-course/

Remember when learning the Qwerty keyboard and we had to type out whatever word or word-like things we could make out on the home row? What can you type there? Um... sad, had, lad, sads fad, er... that's about it.

Here's an example of what you can type only using the home row on a Dvorak:

Tina is on hiatus instead
The statue is sent to Santa Anita
This session is tedious on the tendons
That Thai dish is intense on the sinuses
Onions stain satin so use this Tide on this
Dan Addison detonated the thousandth headstone
Estonian nationhood is a notion hidden in Asia
The tennis enthusiast hides the dots on his hands
Otis said that sand is the seed that Isis sent us
Ted Austin insinuated that Tunisia is in Indonesia
The Dissonant in the ninth edition hits on the Saudis
I insist that Adenine is in DNA and that andesine is not
Deanna and Eddie suntanned on the Tahitian seaside oasis
Indiana and Ohio do not need donated tissues and headsets
The attendant initiated an intense sound that suited Odessa
The dodo added nine and nineteen and attained nine thousand
Duane nodded to his sis as he situated his sedan in the shade
Dennis Hudson is hidden in a distant Tunisian hashish hideout
Nina and Dana hit the astonished attendee on the head in unison
Auntie Edith tends to hint that Edna heeds the ideas due to Satan
The idea that nineteen studious Dadaists assisted Einstein is asinine



You can type out all that, and your fingers never even move up or down. That's why it's amazing and why it should be taught at school.

[mindmetoo]

I took two years of typing in high school. Most males take only one year, if that. This was 1980. PET and Apple ][s were just starting to gain a foothold. I figured computers were going to be something big in my life so I wanted to make sure I knew how to type.

[Greekfreak]

Yeah, the electric typewriters in my high school got phased out a semester before my one and only typing class. It was amazing how much money they wasted on paper.

I used to be able to type around 90wpm, but am probably down to 60 or so due to lack of practice.

However, I used to work in a library, and can probably type the word paperback faster than anybody in the world.

[mindmetoo]

I've always wonder what is the optimal letters to fingers ratio for a language/alphabet. Consider you're slowed down a lot typing my removing your fingers from the home row. The words you can type the quickest are words you can type with the home row keys. Dad Gas Sad etc.

So if our alphabet was only 9 letters (say 8 on a home row and one letter for a thumb and one thumb to operate the space bar) we could type really, really quickly. Of course that would mean we'd have to type more letters. To make a "J" sound we might have to type "ghay". So while we'd gain from less time taking our fingers off the home row, we'd spend more time typing words. Or something.