Sunday, April 15, 2007

QWERTY-PT to DVORAK-US - migration log

Day 0 - Friday, April 13
Choosing the best layout. I opted for dvorak-us for standart reasons.

Day 1 - Saturday, April 14
I cut some post-it's and labeled the keyboard. Is not fancy, but it does the trick.

Is painfull to write a single word. I had to invoke qwerty at the end of the training to prevent madness and rage attacks.

I'm using dvorak7min to assimilate the layout easier, but I only can do 2 exercises in a row

Day 2 - Sunday, April 15
Today, it seems I'm somehow absorbing the layout, but sometimes the fingers start typing as the qwerty layout.
It's easier (less difficult) to write. I started typing this log today.
I type like a little child, is embarassing .....

3 comments:

Neoncow said...

Dvorak is designed for touch typing. Print up a copy of the layout and stick it to your monitor (or to the wall behind your monitor or something). if you need to know where a key is, you can just look at this chart. You might find it useful to circle home keys or ones that you can never find (the 'i' key bugged me a lot at first.)

Hope you're enjoying your journey through Dvorak.

Nuno Leitao said...

Thank you for your tip :D
I've just printed some layouts so i can improve faster. :D
I hope I can manage with this quickly

Anonymous said...

que giro! que máximo! amei.