On 10/09/09 15:09, Marc Weber wrote: > >> Since I do a lot of typing, some people recommend that I move to Dvorak >> keyboard. I also use the Vim editor, which seems to be 'designed' to qwerty >> keyboard. > Hi learned dvorak. > I didn't change anyhting. So hkjkl etr aro on different keys now. > You need some training to learn it. But it can be done. > It will take up to two month until you reach your current speed using > dvorak. Also make sure that you you *always* have the same keyboard > layout using a workspace. Eg on Windows you can switch per window. > However I noticed that it took more time remembering which setting I > had assigned to which window than doing the typing :-) > > Depending on your typing needs you also should know about :abbrev ctrl-n > mappings etc. They can save you typing as well. But you probably already > know about them. > > Don't forget: You'll continue typing for years. And using one layout > onnly will naturally stress some fingers more than others. So switching > occasionally can be a good thing. I don't have a proof for that. Its a > feeling only. Maybe using a good keyboard makes a bigger difference for > the fingers ? > > Personally I don't regret having learned dvorak. > > Sincerly > Marc Weber
My sister learned touch-typing (in AZERTY) in high school. Later she became so accustomed with QWERTY computers that somehow she can now touch-type in both. But not at the same time -- her brain needs a few seconds to "switch over", so to speak. (I've seen her do it, and most letters are at the same location but the punctuation signs all move, and the digits are unshifted in one and shifted in the other.) I don't know how much some layouts stress some fingers more than others. I've been typing for years (decades, actually) and mostly with my right hand (I never learnt ten-fingered typing), and yet AFAICT its fingers hit the keys with no problem (no pain etc.). I notice, however, that today's computer keys are quite a lot "softer" than those of the mechanical typewriters I used when young (my first typewriter was an Underwood hand-me-down from my Grandpa). I believe that with today's keyboards you can do a terrifically huge lot of typing without any measurable stress (especially since you have to take some "time out" for sleep, shopping, eating, etc.) Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 142. You dream about creating the world's greatest web site. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
