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Untitled 4 months ago

Get out of here. “hot, new in-every-way-superior” Thats a load of rubbish.

Use your own brain and try the comparison applet on http://colemak.com/Compare
With their own java applet you can prove that their system is negligibly better. I tried one sentence and the results were almost identical. I tried another and while there was more keys on the home row, there was also a really high percentage on the bottom row whereas dvorak had a high percentage on the top row.

Plus Dvorak has a larger community base (such as all us guys.) You’re gonna crash and burn without an applet like DVAssist to switch to Colemak on public computers. and with a system that is not even available as standard on Windows PCs.

Dvorak is the only alternative keyboard you should be considering. If you’re into Colemak, you’re just trying to be different and I hate people who try to be different for that fact alone.



Comments:

The Colemak Test Applet

The Colemak test applet is acceptable for getting a rudimentary comparison of the keyboard layouts, but we should be wary of making any decisions based on it. One of the major considerations of the Dvorak layout (as well as Colemak, probably) was hand-structure and psychology-related factors contributing to typing speed. While this may not be a major factor, it is an indication that the applet is not the definitive comparison of the layouts. So we probably shouldn’t make any serious judgment calls based on the applet (except that the Qwerty layout isn’t looking so good anymore…).


 

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