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From: mackay@iisat.uucp (Daniel MacKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Dvorak Keycaps?
Summary: un-learning Dvorak
Message-ID: <1989Nov16.121838.2053@iisat.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 89 12:18:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: iisat.1989Nov16.121838.2053
References: <8911081129.AA18420@fs4.nisc.sri.com> <3503@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <127925@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <127925@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
> The hardest part is switching back to Sholes if you have to use a
> keyboard not set up for Dvorak (like my Sun here in the office).

You've got that right, Steve!  When I first bought my //c, I pushed the
keyboard button, swapped all the keycaps around, and practiced.  In a
week I was up to about 70 WPM- 10 WPM faster than my best Sholes, and
a full % better accuracy at 99%.  But since I use so many different machines
I had to switch back- and my Sholes speed never came back.  It's still 
around 55WPM and 97%, which is pretty awful.

Typing on the Dvorak vs. Sholes is as chess is to digging ditches.  There's
just wonderful, peaceful energy flowing, with no sweat, stretching, and pain.

Did you know...
   that the world typing speed record was set on a //c with the Dvorak
   keyboard?  Look it up.  It was set by a lady who used to demonstrate
   the Dvorak mechanical typewriters in the '30s.
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