Dvorak / Colemak

[Will]

Has anyone tried changing to Dvorak from Qwerty? How long did it take to learn to touch type with Dvorak as fluently as you did with Qwerty?

 

[Scouse]

Thought you were getting all New World Symphony on my ass for a while then.

 

[Will]

I'm going to try Colemak instead. Because it seems a better use of my time than writing an essay.

 

[TdC]

dude, tbh, it's taken me long enough to be able to type blind in QWERTY. I am scared of even trying to learn another layout.

 

[Will]

I'm a self-taught touch typer in Qwerty but when I hear magic words like "reduced RSI" I feel it is worth a shot.

 

[TdC]

but you don't have RSI?

 

[Will]

I used to have it. I just like being weird tbh.

 

[dysfunction]

Can't see the point really. All offices I know use a qwerty keyboard so learning something different will just confuse matters...

 

[Kryten]

I tried for around 5 months, but as I would still have to use qwerty for just about everything else, it seemed rather pointless.

At the end of the 5 months (I was doing a lot of data input at the time) I was a little further on from the "double finger hunt'n'stab technique). And confused.

 

[Will]

I'm using Gnu Typist to help with that. I'm using all my fingers already, but its a lot slower than I was with Qwerty.