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From: benson@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Paul Benson)
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Subject: Re: Anybody remember the DVORAK keyboard layout?
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Date: 19 Jun 91 02:07:51 GMT
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I apologize if this is posted twice.  My roommate picked up the phone just
as I was pressing 's' to send the letter.  WHY does he do that? He KNOWS
I'm online!  Grrrr!  ;)

In article <4343.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> asong@pro-nbs.cts.com (Andi Song) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP
>
>
>        Is it really that hard to learn Dvorak? Does anyone know of a
>program that would teach Dvorak (a la Typing Tutor)? I would like to learn,
>as I have heard of people typing at speeds of 90wpm (?) using Dvorak?????
>
>                                                Andi S


 I'd say it took me about a good 2 months to become proficient on Dvorak.
 After a month I was the same as QWERTY, but now I'd guess I'm at about
 80 wpm.  I've never timed myself, so I don't really know, but I am much
 faste on Dvorak.  If you have an Apple IIgs or //c you can easily switch
 to Dvorak by a (soft)switch.  The IIe requires a hardware mod someone
 just mentioned a couple of days ago.  So, any typing tutor will work
 since they only know what key is coming over the bus; you just have
 to change the keyboard map.  Changing keyboards is not that hard, but
 I can no longer type QWERTY on _my_ keyboard.  On my Sun, I type with
 a QWERTY with no real hang-ups.  I have also written a Basic program
 with an short assembly getkey routine that helped me learn; if you want
 it I'll send it to you.  It's not anything fancy, it just helps you
 learn the keys.
 
 Paul
 Vanderbilt University
 Genie: P.Benson1