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    Colvorak

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    12-Mar-2008 18:21:46#1 Colvorak

    Colemak is designed for ease to learn from QWERTY. But I notice that a lot of users are coming from Dvorak. How would Colemak look if it was designed to be easy to learn from Dvorak? I designed this little keyboard yesterday.

    '  ,  . p y f g  c  u l
    a r s t d h n  e  i o
    ; q j k x b m w v z

    I basically took the home row of Colemak and the bottom and top rows of Dvorak and stuck them together, and switched u and r. Plus a is in the Dvorak spot, and d and e are in the Dvorak spot on the opposite hand. What do you think?

    My typing speed record: http://hi-games.net/typing-test/watch?u=493

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    13-Mar-2008 22:20:06#2 Re: Colvorak

    Heh. I'd probably move the L and B to better positions and the J to a worse one. But more interesting is what happens to common digraphs. Shai worked hard to make many common digraphs flow well with Colemak, and I have a feeling many of them will hurt when you do a thing like this. Still fun of course.  :)

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    14-Mar-2008 20:23:32#3 Re: Colvorak

    Yeah, when I did this I didn't take digraphs into account. I didn't put a lot of work into it, just made it for fun. It took about 15 minutes.

    My typing speed record: http://hi-games.net/typing-test/watch?u=493

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    14-Mar-2008 23:42:24#4 Re: Colvorak

    I did a similar thing before I started using Colemak (Warning - long read with MANY sidetracks!):
    https://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=90

    Ah, the memories...  :)

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