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[BladeoftheImmortal]

I have been playing around with a noon-QWERTY keyboard on my android and I think if I can matter it my topping will be a lot faster. Are there any desktop noon-QWERTY keyboards I existence?

 

[injurai]

like Dvorak?

 

[Quick]

I have been playing around with a noon-QWERTY keyboard on my android and I think if I can matter it my topping will be a lot faster. Are there any desktop noon-QWERTY keyboards I existence?

 

[Aguirre]

im guessing youre on yer non qwerty keyboard right hence the mistakes.....?

 

[GhostWriter24]

Try using this motherfucker for a week and let me know how it works out =)

 

[Tesseract]

qwerty4life

 

[zoku88]

One of my friends recently switched to colemark. I wonder how that worked out for him.

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

qwerty4life

Only because we were taught that first.

The mistakes are from auto correct and swipe.

 

[Dresden]

always wanted to switch to dvorak but it'd screw you on every keyboard that's not yours, and I'm lazy, so I've held off...

 

[Salsa]

I wrote a sentence on a dvorak once. Took me 3 years

 

[Alphahawk]

Totally don't understand the appeal of non-QWERTY keyboard.

 

[CornBurrito]

Totally don't understand the appeal of non-QWERTY keyboard.

Wasn't QWERTY designed to cripple efficiency?

 

[zoku88]

Wasn't QWERTY designed to cripple efficiency?

Specifically, for typists on typewriters, I believe, so that they wouldn't break them...

 

[linko9]

Try using this motherfucker for a week and let me know how it works out =)

I can't find the letter E. Where is it.

edit: found it.... that's a really weird spot.

 

[Alphahawk]

Wasn't QWERTY designed to cripple efficiency?

Even so, what's your point? As pointed out 99% of keyboards out there are QWERTY so if you switch to another style your still going to be have to fluent in QWERTY.

 

[DJ_Lae]

Those keyboards remind me a bit of when I first used an old HP calculator and entered everything in RPN.

Was a real mindfuck. Took ages to get used to it, and have never used it since.

 

[AlexMogil]

Try using this motherfucker for a week and let me know how it works out =)

My old friend, the ANIS keyboard.

 

[Alphahawk]

Non Qwerty people strike me as the same people who advocate for spelling reform. Like it or not, the silent letters are still going to be there.

 

[el retorno]

get a french keyboard. They don't use qwerty I think

 

[Cyrillus]

get a french keyboard. They don't use qwerty I think

AZERTY isn't much different, I'm afraid.

 

[Oppo]

DVORAK being faster is an urban myth anyways. You are better sticking with QWERTY

 

[Enduin]

Wasn't QWERTY designed to cripple efficiency?

No, the exact opposite in fact.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

how would you WASD in a non-QWERTY keyboard?

 

[dluu13]

No, the exact opposite in fact.

QWERTY was designed so that mechanical typewriters wouldn't jam up when people typed too fast. E and I being far apart is one example of that.

 

[SolKane]

QWERTY was designed so that mechanical typewriters wouldn't jam up when people typed too fast. E and I being far apart is one example of that.

But that is indeed the opposite of crippling efficiency. It wouldn't be very efficient if the typewriter kept jamming up.

 

[Enduin]

QWERTY was designed so that mechanical typewriters wouldn't jam up when people typed too fast. E and I being far apart is one example of that.

Again that is factually incorrect. Those jams were a result of the mechanisms in early type writers and had nothing to do with the actual speed of the typist, but simply the proximity of two or more letters being typed at nearly the same time. QWERTY was designed to avoid such proximity of commonly used letters but still allow for a high rate of speed. There is nothing in it's design that aims to slow down the rate of speed at which the typist can go. That is why other variations like AZERTY or DVORAK provide no discernible advantage over QWERTY.