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0 pointsSymbiote8y ago0 comments

> things that can't be typed w/o moving your fingers from the home row are really easy to type.

That's why some people (like me) switched to Dvorak.

Your sentence on Qwerty was 43 top, 21 middle and 12 bottom row keypresses.

On Dvorak, it's 24 top, 45 middle and just 7 bottom row characters, twice as good!

"ithout" is also entirely home-row, so you wouldn't need to bother with "w/o". The word demonstrates Dvorak's other feature nicely, hand alternation and outward-to-inwards flow:

  without
  ,gkjsfk (Qwerty equivalent)
  RLRRLLR

The letter pairs typed with the same hand go smaller-to-big finger, since "th" (Qwerty "kj") is much easier to type than "ht" ("jk") -- and "th" occurs about 7x as often in English as "ht".

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dilap8y ago

I tried colemack for a little while, and was able get to up to a slowish but bearable speed (I think around 65wpm iirc) for English sentences. And it definitely felt better and was tempting to keep going.

But I ran into a few things thay ultimately made me give it up.

Oke was emacs shortcuts — it turns out I mostly don’thave these memorized as letters, but just locations. So then trying to translate from location to querty to colemack was pretty brutal.

The other big problem is you’re instantly less efficient using anyone elses computer.

And a final one was programs that chose shortcuts thoughtfully for qwerty suddenly had really randomly chosen shortcuts.

I do kind of want to give it another shot though....

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