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    15-Dec-2009 01:23:22#1 Hi Guys!!!

    I'm =] and I type with the QWERTY layout. Although the colemak layout seems kinda fun, I don't have enough time to learn and to try it out.

    I'm currently doing a science project on different keyboard layouts. I might need some volunteers. Full information go to http://omnitank135.t35.com/What_are_the … s_and_.doc

    I'm doing this science project with keyboard layouts and need to recruit people with different typing experiences to see how they do on a keyboard typing test.

    I'll be needing people who type with QWERTY, Dvorak, Frogpad, Halfkeyboard, and Colemak layouts; fast and slow typists; experienced coders who use angle brackets and/or brackets; people who use a big plus numeric keypad compared to the small plus with clear numeric keypad; people who type with 1337 slang, with strings such as "t3h h4xx0r"; and people who use proper caps and punctuation compared to people who use all lowercase and frequent misspellings online.

    The goal of this is to find a correlation between numbers typed on a numeric keypad with their corresponding letters. Volunteers will be instructed to type a phrase of words composed of letters from either the left side of the keyboard, the right side of the keyboard, or both sides of the keyboard with space onto the number pad.

    If you're willing to sign up, I might need you guys to sign a form. Just like the astral projection project. For the typing tests, you might have to retype the passage a couple of times.

    All help is appreciated in advance! =)

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    15-Dec-2009 20:39:37#2 Re: Hi Guys!!!

    "I don't have enough time to learn and to try it out."

    and why then do you think we have time ?

    read your proposal, the first problem is it doesn't pass the "so what?" test. 

    astral projection project ?????    science ????

    pass.

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    15-Dec-2009 22:42:45#3 Re: Hi Guys!!!

    I don't know what to make of this project. The whole signature needed to make things official and the amount of time that this might take does not feel like it is worth it. You don't have the time to learn a simple layout, but you can do this experiment, and we should all just help you.

    Your hypothesis seems to be a logical conclusion, but not something that anyone will care about or waste time on.
    I'm not going to do this, and I doubt that others will.

    Ditto. No way.

    Colemak typist

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    16-Dec-2009 01:27:55#4 Re: Hi Guys!!!

    I just needed people who were used to typing with the Colemak layout. Otherwise, I can remove the Colemak section from my project.

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    16-Dec-2009 09:47:19#5 Re: Hi Guys!!!

    I'm all for projects and learning and whatnot. Sorry, just too busy with my own stuff and the day already has too few hours for my tastes.

    However, I do agree with Samurai and Juice: If you can spend time doing such a project then you could easily spend time learning Colemak and probably improve something that you'll be using for the rest of your life thus returning your initial investment many many times over! I see how people don't think so of course, and I know that for instance Vim (or Emacs for that matter) isn't the editor for everyone even with all the coolness and potential. That's how it rolls.

    Also see my Board Wars post, obviously...   :D

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    16-Dec-2009 19:38:51#6 Re: Hi Guys!!!
    =] said:

    I just needed people who were used to typing with the Colemak layout. Otherwise, I can remove the Colemak section from my project.

    Not trying to be unfriendly, and I hope you find some people, but it's kind of the way you asked. 

    I am all for participating in projects, but it's got to be interesting and my time valued. 

    For a colleague, spent time having my brain scanned while looking at images and answer questions stuck inside a MRI, but got some nifty images of my brain and a crisp $20 bill thank you for helping out by volunteering.   And is was nifty, cutting edge project.  So interesting.  In real world research people are compensated for their valuable time.  What is it about the internet that people think that they can ask strangers for their time for free?

    After all I learned Colemak to be more efficient in a busy schedule.

    best of luck.

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    17-Dec-2009 13:58:50#7 Re: Hi Guys!!!
    =] said:

    I'm =] and I type with the QWERTY layout. Although the colemak layout seems kinda fun, I don't have enough time to learn and to try it out.

    I once complained to my dad that I didn't have enough time to get certain things done. He sat me down on a chair across from his, and said: "son, there are twenty-four hours in a day."

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    17-Dec-2009 16:15:45#8 Re: Hi Guys!!!
    RevRal said:

    "son, there are twenty-four hours in a day."

    A teacher of mine always told us “you don't have time, you make time” (when we told him we hadn't had time for our homework...).

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    17-Dec-2009 22:08:09#9 Re: Hi Guys!!!

    See my sig. for my attitude towards time. So true...

    "It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in." - Earl of Chesterfield

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    11-Nov-2010 19:13:32#10 Re: Hi Guys!!!

    Wow, those quotes are truth and as a business owner, I always tell that to my partners. Sometimes they would get lazy or make an excuse and say they don't have time. But the reality of it is, that the person that is very busy, is the person that makes the time to do what he/she has to do.

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    11-Nov-2010 20:08:27#11 Re: Hi Guys!!!
    RevRal said:
    =] said:

    I'm =] and I type with the QWERTY layout. Although the colemak layout seems kinda fun, I don't have enough time to learn and to try it out.

    I once complained to my dad that I didn't have enough time to get certain things done. He sat me down on a chair across from his, and said: "son, there are twenty-four hours in a day."

    Twenty-four hours are an incredibly short time span. I need to sleep nine of them. Four are for traveling between my home and school. One is for cooking and eating when I get home. I'm at school 8 hours. One hour disappears on the morning to shower and eat breakfast and stuff. If you have kept count, there is only one hour left, and I need to do schoolwork. Mostly that hour isn't even enough time for that, so it tends to pile up and I have to do it on the mid-term breaks.

    Current Colemak: http://hi-games.net/typing-test,60/watch?u=1388

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    11-Nov-2010 22:23:19#12 Re: Hi Guys!!!

    You could try the Uberman sleep schedule. 20 minute naps, 4 hours apart, totaling 2 hours of sleep a day. Of course, with a 8 hour school/work block, the Everyman makes more sense.

    http://polyphasicsleep.info

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    12-Nov-2010 16:00:55#13 Re: Hi Guys!!!

    @kqr, where the glory about that quote comes in is that no matter what your obstacles are, you will still find time to do what you need to do. Even if you have to rush a few of those things, you will make time.

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    13-Dec-2010 13:20:17#14 Re: Hi Guys!!!

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