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Mechanical Keyboards
jwhouk:
I suspect age might be a factor - or just "that was the type of keyboard I learned stuff on".
(Of course, with me, that'd be impossible, since I learned to type on a Selectric typewriter in the early 1980's...)
ev4n:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 01 Aug 2013, 05:57 ---I learned to type on a Selectric typewriter in the early 1980's...
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Likewise. Man those things were amazing.
Cire27:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 31 Jul 2013, 17:52 ---Hey now, us lefties love QWERTY. Yeah, it was designed to slow down typers so they wouldn't jam up their typewriters, but in the process, one of the few tools friendly to left-handed people was unintentionally developed. Nearly all the "main letters and thousands of words using mostly left-hand buttons can be typed with the left hand. I'll stick with my QWERTY, all you normal righties can go to Dvorak or whatever you claim is more efficient :-P
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I never thought of it like that but it totally makes sense! I tried Dvorak a while back and even though I could type on it I never got as fast as QWERTY.
bhtooefr:
Mind you, there's also multiple Dvorak layouts.
What most people call Dvorak is the Dvorak Simplified Layout.
There actually are one-handed Dvorak variants for left and right hand usage.
ankhtahr:
Well, one of the most important things about optimised layouts is that they distribute the keystrokes over both hands equally. Just because I'm right-handed I wouldn't want to have a keyboard layout which has all important keys under my right hand. To achieve greater typing speeds it's important to use both hands equally. And for ergonomic purposes it's important to move your hands less. That's why most ergonomic layouts have the vowels and the most common consonants on the homerow.
Also: get out of the mechanical keyboard thread you filthy casual with your rubberdome! ( :wink: )
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