Comments on: The next keyboard wont feature the QWERTY layout

By: Brucemagnus

Brucemagnus — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:01:05 +0000

I currently use dvorak on my laptop and it didn’t take too long to learn(acceptable typing speed after several days, same speed as qwerty after about a month). I think that as long as you keep using qwerty on other computers, you wont forget it and now I can completely touch type because my keys are still in qwerty.

By: Eric Nuorven

Eric Nuorven — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:35:02 +0000

Great idea

By: Blanda

Blanda — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:41:53 +0000

Dvorak is a self promoter? He was a professor, not the columnist.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:31:24 +0000

A way to slow them down?!? I’m not saying your wrong, but I’d have to see a few sources to believe that. Dvorak is a big self promoter. Some say the efficiency increase is not so grand.

I changed to DVORAK for a week and only a week. Learning the new layout is not the problem, it’s being able to use QWERTY! One trip to the lab and I found I could barely type up an email. Unless the entire world desides to switch at one, I’m staying with QWERTY.

By: duh

duh — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:53:18 +0000

There is a reason that QWERTY is the standard in keyboards, maybe not as prevailant today, but back in the day, it was a necessity.

When typewriters were used with the ol’ hammering of the letters, keyboards were often in the abcde format, however, because of the time it took to hit a key and have the hammer move down, some of the typing was too fast for the machine, and multilpe hammers would converge on the same location, thus locking things up. Typerwriter makers needed a way to slow people’s typing down, and thus, qwerty was inveted to force the odd movements of fingers to make normal words.

Interesting eh?