
Dvorak
Because I lost on typeracer with colemak
So from the last post, I hinted in starting dvorak after reaching very good speeds on colemak as a 140wpm qwerty typist or something and how useless it is to learn a new layout when already so good at qwerty, but also how fun and maybe comfier sometimes..?
Day 1 of dvorak
20 wpm on e, n, i, a, r, l keys on keybr, 9wpm 70% accuracy.
This is going way better than colemak, probably because it is not the first layout I learnt, but it is way different, you see, on colemak, you maybe had like...
4 keys that swapped hands... In colemak, there is a lot more rolling: usage of adjacent fingers to type something like 'rst' for like 'first' or something,
very similar to something like qwerty's chording where you kinda just move your fingers to the keys needed for a word or a part of a word... From a first look
of the layout, I'm going to guess that it is going to be a layout that will make you alternate hands more, I also see that maybe dvorak is going to require
less same finger key presses, like 'ed' on qwerty. Rarer letters on colemak were hard to learn, especially the ones that swapped hands like 'p' but 'j', 'g'
and 'k' were also extremely hard, but on dvorak, there is swapped special characters, now, I have technically felt this in AZERTY and QWERTY JIS so it might
not be too bad but it will certainly not be too fun: colemak did only one special character movement and that is ':' moving to the top, which was not hard
to get used to but slow to get used too... If that makes sense.
It's still surprising since on colemak I was 3 word per minute with way worse accuracy at the start, and yet, I am getting 9 wpm, both on quotes mode?
I was dreading it but this is actually not that bad or I just got really patient with janktastically stupid layouts.