Just as a mind exercise, I spent a couple of hours learning to type with the Dvorak keyboard layout last night. After noticing my ZXCVQW shortcuts would be all over the place and not all that practical one-handed with a mouse, I gave the Colemak layout a shot for a few hours tonight (it retains those keys, plus punctuation, in the same place as QWERTY).
What I found really quite suprised me:
- It's way easier to re-train yourself than I thought it would be (faster, at least...it still requires a massive amount of concentration)
- QWERTY is beginning to feel horribly inefficient (I'd read before that your fingers do less walking with Dvorak but I never appreciated just how much more. It feels like even less movement with Colemak.)
What are your experiences with alternative layouts?
What I found really quite suprised me:
- It's way easier to re-train yourself than I thought it would be (faster, at least...it still requires a massive amount of concentration)
- QWERTY is beginning to feel horribly inefficient (I'd read before that your fingers do less walking with Dvorak but I never appreciated just how much more. It feels like even less movement with Colemak.)
What are your experiences with alternative layouts?