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ianuarie 23, 2008 de şerbănică

Today I started to use the Colemak keyboard layout. I would have loved to write a longer post, but my typing speed is at like 10 words per minute

- Şerbănică (aka Dragossh)

Postat in Random thoughts | Tagged colemak, keyboard, layout | 2 Comentarii

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pe ianuarie 26, 2008 la 5:52 pm Piku

Now is it better ?
If not then why switch just to be slow (maybe if you get used to it you type better).
Also when you go to other computer, isn’t odd to be back on qwerty ?
I don’t think other layouts would get a major share, it’s the chicken and egg problem. (Maybe dvorak has a small share:P)
pe februarie 8, 2008 la 8:13 pm kbsamurai

Hey Piku, check this blog http://typecolemak.wordpress.com/
to see a qwerty touch typist who is up to 70 wpm on Colemak a month after switching and who did it without dropping their usage of Qwerty.

The final version of the layout is only a little over a year old. I personally do about 50 wpm currently but I was never a touch typist before learning Colemak. Others are in the 80 to 130 wpm range on Colemak that have public tests results.

Switching is more about comfort and accuracy than speed though, since humans are pretty good at adapting to inefficient layouts like querty and hitting high speeds if they start young enough. Often people that switch have experienced repetitive strain injury due heavy use of qwerty layout which among other many faults does not have some of the most common letters on the home row (e.g. “e”, “t”, “n” …)

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