![]() ![]() If you’re typing thousands of words a day, that adds up. The idea behind Dvorak and Colemak is that the layouts are more efficient: if you type the same string on all three layouts, your fingers must travel further on QWERTY. Eventually, I just made sure the US International layout was installed on my machines and I could type normally – as long as I didn’t look at the keyboard. I could type on it, until I needed to write anything code related. When I moved to Sweden, I got thrown for a loop with the three extra Swedish characters and the different placement of punctuation. I’d learned the US 101 key layout in the US, then learned to use the 105 key US International layout when moving to the Netherlands. It’s the layout designed in the 1880s with the aim to alternate hands to avoid jams – and anecdotally, to spell “typewriter” along the top row to aid in sales. QWERTY is the standard keyboard layout, with some small variations for different locations. ![]() The idea seemed neat, so why not? Qwerty vs. The idea is that if you spend so much of your day at your computer, you might as well be efficient at input. When I joined Automattic, I found that using different keyboard layouts like Dvorak and Colemak are common and encouraged – as are most things that will help you be more efficient. ![]() QWERTY’s setup was rather arbitrary and not expected to be efficient. From then on out, it was a given – I could type quickly and relatively accurately.īut then, just because something works, it doesn’t mean there isn’t a better way of doing it. Maybe because my mother typed quickly, I was interested in picking it up. I can’t even find a reference to the game on the internet – but this would have been in the early nineties, when we wheeled the computer in each classroom to a big room once a week to make a computer lab. I’ve been a QWERTY typer since the days of Paws Run on an Apple II machine in elementary school. ![]()
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