Dvorak
Ladies and gentelmen let me tell you about dvorak.
Dvorak will make you faster.
Dvorak will make you stronger.
Dvorak will make you more accurate.
Dvorak will make your fingers seize up and you'll want to shoot * yourself in the head.
Dvorak is a rearangement of the keys on the keyboard designed to do the above (the latter is an unoffical goal).
Remember back to when you first started on a keyboard, pressing keys with one finger on each hand (if that) and taking approximatly thirty seven minutes to find the key you are looking for. Well learning dvorak is a little like that, but much much worse.
On my keyboard I've stuck little stickers on each of the keys with their dvorak corrospondent. To avoid my sister moaning I haven't covered the letter of the standard keyboard (still moaned later I add), so on my keyboard I've got two sets of letters. Couple this with my dyslexia and finding the letter I need is where the "shoot yourself in the head bit comes in".
Ok ok, technically I haven't been diagnosed with dyselxia, but I have a strong suspision and as soon as I can afford the test I'm getting them done.
To try to learn this demonic layout I thought the best way would be to temporarilly remove my self imposed exile from MSN messenger for the dive in at the deep end technique, this is where the "fingers seizing up" bit comes in. My thumb has gone through several shades of blue, purple and black and is experimenting with falling off altogether. To write a reply on MSN in 'standard' time is impossible, before I've finished typing it out I've forgotten what I was talking about.
However, I'll stick with it out of guilt of my mum spending 99p on the sticky labels.
* denotes where I gave up trying to type this out in dvorak and switched to standard.
Dvorak will make you faster.
Dvorak will make you stronger.
Dvorak will make you more accurate.
Dvorak will make your fingers seize up and you'll want to shoot * yourself in the head.
Dvorak is a rearangement of the keys on the keyboard designed to do the above (the latter is an unoffical goal).
Remember back to when you first started on a keyboard, pressing keys with one finger on each hand (if that) and taking approximatly thirty seven minutes to find the key you are looking for. Well learning dvorak is a little like that, but much much worse.
On my keyboard I've stuck little stickers on each of the keys with their dvorak corrospondent. To avoid my sister moaning I haven't covered the letter of the standard keyboard (still moaned later I add), so on my keyboard I've got two sets of letters. Couple this with my dyslexia and finding the letter I need is where the "shoot yourself in the head bit comes in".
Ok ok, technically I haven't been diagnosed with dyselxia, but I have a strong suspision and as soon as I can afford the test I'm getting them done.
To try to learn this demonic layout I thought the best way would be to temporarilly remove my self imposed exile from MSN messenger for the dive in at the deep end technique, this is where the "fingers seizing up" bit comes in. My thumb has gone through several shades of blue, purple and black and is experimenting with falling off altogether. To write a reply on MSN in 'standard' time is impossible, before I've finished typing it out I've forgotten what I was talking about.
However, I'll stick with it out of guilt of my mum spending 99p on the sticky labels.
* denotes where I gave up trying to type this out in dvorak and switched to standard.
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