In November 2012 I started the switch from QWERTY to Dvorak, and was using it exclusively after 2 months. I had peaked at 35 wpm in QWERTY. While painfully slow at first, my speed was 40 wpm after 4 months. Now 6 years later can attain 70 wpm.
I attribute at least some if this to the layout, which is very comfortable to type with (not so much awkward reaching and twisting of the fingers) --but also because of the disciplined approach I had to use in learning the layout and proper typing technique. Since my keyboard has only the QWERTY keys, I really had no choice but to learn to 'touch-type'.
| User details |
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| User ID |
355697 |
| last login |
2 months, 1 week, 6 days ago |
| member since |
on June, 20th, 2013 |
| Keyboard Layout |
Dvorak |
| Keyboard |
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600 |
| Words typed |
13,557 |
| Tests taken |
232 |
| Competitions taken |
9 (0) |
