Very random question, but how fast can you type?

[rebelcowboysnb]

I type slow but I am typeing one handed...


I have to ask if all y'all fast typers are using the standard QWERTY layout keyboard or are any of you using one of the the Dvorak keyboard layouts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

 

[Linn Bee]

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Ha! I was just going to say that while I don't know how fast I type, I know I could double my speed if we got rid of the QWERTY system. That arrangement was actually set to keep people from typing so fast that the keys got jammed. Now that we have left manual typewriters to history books, there is no reason to keep QWERTY.

As a teacher I would practice typing with my students the first quarter of each year. I would certainly be willing to spend a bit of time practicing a faster keyboard layout if it were available.

Love, Linn B (aka Smart Red) Gardening zone 5a - 4b in south-est, central-est Wisconsin

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Yea, they are there. You just have to go to the control panel an change the keyboard layout there then if you want you can pop the keys off an move them to the new location.


I keep mine on QWERT because others use it but its set up that ctrl+ shift switches it to the Dvorak left handed lay out. Have not used it enough to learn it yet. I think anyone disabled though should be started on it though.

 

[Nicola]

I use the qwerty layout as that's what i have grown up with haha, but i am used to it and it doesnt seem to impact how fast i type now that i dont need to look at the keys, i know where they all are.

 

[Matthew3590]

QWERTY was designed to use the most used letters on the main row.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Where did you get that? Only 1 vowel is even on the home row..

The way the original typewriter worked it jammed a lot if the keys were alphabetical so the keys were moved around to help with jamming issues.

 

[9Catsz]

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Twenty-eight years of QWERTY....no way I'd ever type faster on Dvorak.

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Pretty cool, other MTs also love their chickies! Do you work from home? I've been doing that since 2000 and I love it!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Twenty-eight years of QWERTY....no way I'd ever type faster on Dvorak.

lol after that long you may be right. I have heard otherwise by people that changed over but it took lots of work.

 

[sonew123]

46!

How sad!

 

[Fierlin1182]

For all of you who can do 100+ WPM...

I suppose I've got a ways to go. My friends' jaws would be going through the floor and beyond if they watched any of you typing.

I never use the right hand shift button. Well, hardly ever.

The only characters I seem to use it for is : - as in the : in smileys.