The thing is, you can't judge the layout on appearances. That has absolutely no relevance to the argument here.
The QWERTY layout was designed for typewriters to minimize jams and actually is not the most practical for speed and comfort, among other things... You are actually wrong about the QWERTY having common letters placed close together. That is exactly the opposite of what the QWERTY's design was originally for.
The Dvorak keyboard was actually designed to be practical for faster typing, better ergonomics, reduced strain, and several other things. On THIS keyboard layout, the most common letters are placed on the home row.
I highly advise you to do some more research on the benefits of the Dvorak keyboard compared to the QWERTY before you make another hasty judgement on it.
I would actually love to test that keyboard... Though I like the standard layout (for me it is qwertz) and I can type pretty fast with it... but would be interesting if the dvorak keyboard is better!
qwertz? I have not heard of this one, but are you from the USA? What type of computer do you have?
When I was researching this the other day, I learned that most computers support an option to switch to the Dvorak layout internally. For most people, it takes about a month to re-learn and it is advised that you don't use the QWERTY layout(or in your case qwertz) during this process in order to learn it properly. So if you're like me and you have to use public computers regularly (which have the QWERTY as default) it's probably not a very good idea. However, if you do decide to make the switch, I would be very interested to know what observations you come up with.
Well I come from germany and the only difference is that we also have äöü and z and y switched and some other minor changes (I don't know all differences but there are some^^)
And changing the layout internally is just confusing if you can't type without looking at the keys^^ And even if you can I get confused by it^^
What do you think of the Dvorak keyboard layout?
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Looks shit. The QWERTY layout is pretty much perfect as it has letters placed near to letters which are commonly used to together.
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The thing is, you can't judge the layout on appearances. That has absolutely no relevance to the argument here.
The QWERTY layout was designed for typewriters to minimize jams and actually is not the most practical for speed and comfort, among other things... You are actually wrong about the QWERTY having common letters placed close together. That is exactly the opposite of what the QWERTY's design was originally for.
The Dvorak keyboard was actually designed to be practical for faster typing, better ergonomics, reduced strain, and several other things. On THIS keyboard layout, the most common letters are placed on the home row.
I highly advise you to do some more research on the benefits of the Dvorak keyboard compared to the QWERTY before you make another hasty judgement on it.
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I would actually love to test that keyboard... Though I like the standard layout (for me it is qwertz) and I can type pretty fast with it... but would be interesting if the dvorak keyboard is better!
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qwertz? I have not heard of this one, but are you from the USA? What type of computer do you have?
When I was researching this the other day, I learned that most computers support an option to switch to the Dvorak layout internally. For most people, it takes about a month to re-learn and it is advised that you don't use the QWERTY layout(or in your case qwertz) during this process in order to learn it properly. So if you're like me and you have to use public computers regularly (which have the QWERTY as default) it's probably not a very good idea. However, if you do decide to make the switch, I would be very interested to know what observations you come up with.
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Well I come from germany and the only difference is that we also have äöü and z and y switched and some other minor changes (I don't know all differences but there are some^^)
And changing the layout internally is just confusing if you can't type without looking at the keys^^ And even if you can I get confused by it^^