QWERTY keyboards VS Dvorak?!

[LukeS]

So my uncle is visiting, and he's critisized my Razer Blackwidow 2014... Against a Dvorak keyboard. Has anyone heard of it? Opinions?!

 

Anyway, my current typing speed is an average of 120 WPM. He claims that Dvorak can get me up to 200 wpm. What's your experience.

[ThatOneRussian]

So my uncle is visiting, and he's critisized my Razer Blackwidow 2014... Against a Dvorak keyboard. Has anyone heard of it? Opinions?!

 

Anyway, my current typing speed is an average of 120 WPM. He claims that Dvorak can get me up to 200 wpm. What's your experience.

watch Tarans video on it

[manikyath]

dvorak is designed with all the common letters on the middle row, for faster typing.

 

qwerty was designed with the common letters on the top and bottom row, to make ye olde typewriter not jam as often.

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dvorak is appareantly 20-30% faster, if you can be bothered learning a new keyboard layout.

[vectorx5000]

It makes more sense, but it would be very difficult to adopt.

[Vivilacqua1]

it felt like it would be alot faster for me when I switched for a week, but I just was too lazy to re learn.

[LukeS]

Ok, glad to know. Yea sooo imma reprogram just to prove him right then.

[ThatOneRussian]

[LtStaffel]

Now I want to try dvorak, if I can figure out how to move my keycaps on a Logitech g105...

[ThatOneRussian]

dvorak is designed with all the common letters on the middle row, for faster typing.

 

qwerty was designed with the common letters on the top and bottom row, to make ye olde typewriter not jam as often.

--

dvorak is appareantly 20-30% faster, if you can be bothered learning a new keyboard layout.

watch the video

[LukeS]

watch Tarans video on it

Link plz?

[ThatOneRussian]

Link plz?

its like right there but here it is again 

[hypnodog]

Now I want to try dvorak, if I can figure out how to move my keycaps on a Logitech g105...

Just pull the keys and move them lol

[spartaman64]

Just pull the keys and move them lol

some keyboards have different height keys for different rows on the keyboard 

[LukeS]

its like right there but here it is again 

Saw it lol... My uncles totally lmaoed when he heard "from mr dvorak himself"

[ThatOneRussian]

Saw it lol... My uncles totally lmaoed when he heard "from mr dvorak himself"

haha k

[Penny5837]

So my uncle is visiting, and he's critisized my Razer Blackwidow 2014... Against a Dvorak keyboard. Has anyone heard of it? Opinions?!

Anyway, my current typing speed is an average of 120 WPM. He claims that Dvorak can get me up to 200 wpm. What's your experience.

I would convert to Dvorak, but I have to use my schools qwerty keyboards every day.

[Enderman]

dvorak is definitely way better

 

not only is it faster, its also healthier for your hands and less chances of getting those nasty finger disabilities when you get older

the onyl thing is that qwerty is already mainstream so using dvorak requires practice, like switching to a new language, and you need to bring your own keyboard if you use other peoples PCs

 

oh and you have a razer keyboard, so yeah, quality just out the window as well

[itachipirate]

some keyboards have different height keys for different rows on the keyboard 

That doesn't have anything to do with caps, (usually) that's just a height difference for the switches themselves

[LukeS]

That doesn't have anything to do with caps, (usually) that's just a height difference for the switches themselves

Psst Razer synapse 2.0 REPROGRAM... And he says in the video you can just change the language.

[LtStaffel]

Just pull the keys and move them lol

Membrane keyboard?

[hypnodog]

Membrane keyboard?

So? I could pull and rearrange the keys when I had a G105.

[KaminKevCrew]

That doesn't have anything to do with caps, (usually) that's just a height difference for the switches themselves

That's not true at all. Most, if not all modern (mechanical, anyway) keyboards use a flat PCB and flat plate (if they have one) and use different height keycaps...

I would convert to Dvorak, but I have to use my schools qwerty keyboards every day.

I mean, both Windows and Mac OS (and probably Linux) have very easy ways to switch back and forth between the different layouts. Better yet, just get a pok3r and take it with you when you go to school...

Now I want to try dvorak, if I can figure out how to move my keycaps on a Logitech g105...

Or you could spend some time learning to touch type...

[LtStaffel]

So? I could pull and rearrange the keys when I had a G105.

Ok, I'll try it.  Didn't know if it was possible on it.

[Tsuki]

there was a keyboard i remember seeing a while back, that actually had a switch in the back to automatically switch layouts so you wouldnt have to rebind every single key(you'd still have to move the physical keys around though) but i dont remember what it was..

[KaminKevCrew]

there was a keyboard i remember seeing a while back, that actually had a switch in the back to automatically switch layouts so you wouldnt have to rebind every single key(you'd still have to move the physical keys around though) but i dont remember what it was..

Most nice keyboards (and I mean actually nice ones, not "gamer" ones) nowadays have dip switches on the back, and most support switching between Qwerty, Dvorak and Colemak. (Of particular note is the Pok3r, since it's so comparatively inexpensive.)

 

But still, you should just learn to touch type it from the get go, at which point moving the caps around becomes pointless. And it can be especially annoying to move the caps around, since that changes where the labels are for the FN layer, which is where it would actually be nice to have the labels.