Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout
"Have you ever thought how the arrangement of the letters on our keyboard comes from?"
Every time I asked the new question to my friends, the answer was always no. I have tried so hard to convince my friends or family members to try Dvorak simplified keyboard layout. However, all of them were just listened quietly but never do a change themselves. I was tired and disappointed. They probably didn't know how much this can affect their life style.
Here I found a marvelous comic book that describe the evolution of keyboard layout and sincerely convince you to TRY Dvorak keyboard layout. It does greater job than I could explain its advantages. Please enjoy and consider it.
DVzine.org - PDF Edition
Being very lucky, I learned typing when I was six grade in elementary school. It was very impressive that a ten-year-old boy could type faster than most of adults in that time. I neither knew nor asked why the keyboard layout was arranged so awkward. Maybe I thought it was just something there I couldn't understand on my age. On the first year of my college, I asked that question to myself and did a thorough research on the Internet. So I started to learn Dvorak keyboard layout. In the first few weeks, it really needed patient to look up the layout table whenever I forgot where a letter is, and the frequent typing error and re-typing also made people frustrated. Then I thought, "Haven't I just managed it when the first time I studied the QWERTY layout? What does make me not through this time? I just need to drop what I've learned, as though it's not easy." So I did make it.
The training ended up in fewer than two months, and since then I can enjoy the advantages of Dvorak keyboard layout completely. I have also tried to introduce Dvorak layout to the others. None of them have ever changed to it though. Maybe the human race just simply don't want to change, like what August Dvorak said before he died.
I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race.
They simply don't want to change!
I know that Dvorak layout may not be the best one to my use. It can be optimized better for programmers like me. However, once I know a general and efficient layout for programmer developed out there. I won't hesitate to have a try. Would you?
