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Keyboard layout?

Which one?

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InsanelyApple

InsanelyApple

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What keyboard layout do you use and why?

I am great at the QWERTY, but I'm learning the Dvorak layout and I like it and use it more.
 
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I can't use Dvorak. I only use the standard Qwerty layout, just because I learned that way from the get go.
 
I think 99% of people will be using qwerty as that is the standard keyboard.
 
I use qwerty as that's what I'm used to, I tried switching to Dvorak once, but it was too much trouble to learn so I went back.
 
Dvorak is apparently faster to type than Qwerty, as Qwerty was designed to actually slow down typing to stop the typewriter arms from getting jammed. as typewriters became popular, Qwerty became the standard keyboard layout.
 
qwerty for me, its what i learned and i'm still a fairly slow typer even on that. (I'm only marginally faster when I use 2 hands as opposed to using just one.)
 
I created my own. It was a very simple process and now I can type in my own language. However, writing in English can be tough.
 
richard.mac said:
Dvorak is apparently faster to type than Qwerty, as Qwerty was designed to actually slow down typing to stop the typewriter arms from getting jammed. as typewriters became popular, Qwerty became the standard keyboard layout.
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It was not designed to slow down typists but rather to prevent letters that are side to side to be pressed in close succession, as it caused jams and sometimes destroyed the machines.

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I voted QWERTY, but I actually use a variant, QWERTY French-Canadian (CSA). It's almost the same, but since it has keys for all accented letters, it is much more adapted to the french language than the AZERTY layout the french use :) (Note that only macs have this particular type of keyboard, PCs use the inferior Canadian Multilingual keyboard which has only an é key, the accent grave is a soft key.)
 
QWERTY for I'd guess about 50 years.

But I sure wish that the key to the left of the A were Ctrl instead of Shift Lock. :(
 
lewis82 said:
It was not designed to slow down typists but rather to prevent letters that are side to side to be pressed in close succession, as it caused jams and sometimes destroyed the machines.
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That makes more sense to me--once the brain is mapped, there is no reason another key layout would be faster.
 
Qwerty for me; I'm too lazy to learn Dvorak and too lazy to physically rearrange my keyboard. And 80wpm is fast enough for me...until my friends are like LOL I CAN TYPE AT 100+wpm!!11!!
 
robbieduncan said:
Are you're # and * really that way round? I've just looked at my phone at work and the bottom row is *0#. I can see no reason for it being different in the UK but I suppose it could be...
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My phone has the bottom row *0# too. Can anyone verify that this is different for Americans/other parts of the world?
 
tristangage said:
My phone has the bottom row *0# too. Can anyone verify that this is different for Americans/other parts of the world?
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My American iPhone is *0#. And if you type "phone buttons" into Google images, every one is *0#. I think it was just a type...or someone who likes them backwards.
 
Switching constantly between Canadian English and Canadian French - CSA.

I wish I could stick to Canadian French as all the english keys are there but I have a hard time finding most of the advanced punctuation/symbols with it. So I have a hotkey just to switch language.

Haven't thought of switching my keyboard layout to DVORAK, I still type faster than I can think of words.
 
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