Typing

[dmaze]

For no spectacularly good reason, I'm trying to learn Dvorak. After two days of practice or so, my short-term memory has learned where most of the letters are, and any word that lives entirely on the home row I can type quickly. But I've realized that it's really all about learning patterns and relearning finger macros: S,' won't get me out of vi, cvs is incredibly inconvenient, but I've definitely learned how to type xml. (And while it's frustrating, I don't think typing at a third speed has ruined my actual productivity that much...)

Comments

[hartmans]

Have you gotten to the really frustrating phase where you can't type efficiently either qwerty or dvorak?

[dmaze]

Today I felt like I was going around half speed. The irritation du juor is hunting for a right-handed vowel, like o, and trying every right-hand key looking for it. There were some interludes when I had to work on a qwerty system and using it was very quick.