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by easytiger
1655 days ago
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How hard was the mental brain remapping/muscle memory remapping? Much of my work history involved lots of travel and working on sites and it wouldn't have been realistic to try and adopt it. It was tough enough working on French keyboards. AZERTY? I did visit a client in Chicago once and sat down at the guys desk to find a Dvorak keyboard on a solaris desktop. After 2 minutes of finger picking and eye scanning i kind of picked it up. I also largely typed on US QWERTY keyboards for a couple of years as thats what we had at Sun, to the point when i went back to GB layouts i just have a switch that when i type SHIFT-3 i take note of whether i get a # or a £ and my brain seems to auto remap on the spot |
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As far as I can tell, it has not affected my speed with QWERTY at all. Using QWERTY is slightly frustrating as I'm about half as fast as with Dvorak, but I still do the same old annoying 30 - 40 wpm with my four-finger peck technique that I couldn't unlearn.
It does take a few seconds sometimes to adjust when I switch layouts, but I can hop between them pretty easily. The two never really interfere with each other. With Ctrl-C etc., I seem to associate that with a letter, not a physical movement, and it maps too. (Video games are a different question. I usually end up remapping everything.)