I’ve hit, back when ephedra was legal, more than 250 WPM; but ephedra increased the speed at which I thought. The limiting factor for me is not the speed at which my fingers move, but the speed at which I can articulate and finish my thoughts. My primary issue when typing isn’t the typing speed in itself, but an extensive editing process, and the fact that I’ll alter my thoughts mid-stream and have to go back to correct my verbs to match the fact that I’ve altered which subject/noun to use in the sentence.
I’ve tried Dvorak. It’s not any harder to use than Qwerty, but I didn’t find it any easier, either. It’s just different.
This poll is subject to self-selection problems. People who use QWERTY are less likely to bother responding. I use Colemak, and so answered “Other.”
I’m not sure that I necessarily type much faster using Colemak than I do using QWERTY, but it is far more comfortable in the same way that lounging in a chair feels more comfortable than sitting on a stool. Typing is effortless as compared with typing in QWERTY because of the economy of motion it has with Colemak (and I presume Dvorak as well). I just measured my typing speed at 78 WPM so people can definitely achieve better typing speeds than me with QWERTY if they are dedicated, but I still wouldn’t go back to QWERTY.
This pretty much describes my experience with Dvorak. I’ll just add that my learning hump was a few weeks long; I’d recommend learning an alternate layout during an extended period when your typing efficiency can afford to plummet.
A quick google search was surprisingly useless at answering this question. In particular, there is no good answer on Quora.
So, poll time:
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Qwerty user.
I’ve hit, back when ephedra was legal, more than 250 WPM; but ephedra increased the speed at which I thought. The limiting factor for me is not the speed at which my fingers move, but the speed at which I can articulate and finish my thoughts. My primary issue when typing isn’t the typing speed in itself, but an extensive editing process, and the fact that I’ll alter my thoughts mid-stream and have to go back to correct my verbs to match the fact that I’ve altered which subject/noun to use in the sentence.
I’ve tried Dvorak. It’s not any harder to use than Qwerty, but I didn’t find it any easier, either. It’s just different.
This poll is subject to self-selection problems. People who use QWERTY are less likely to bother responding. I use Colemak, and so answered “Other.”
I’m not sure that I necessarily type much faster using Colemak than I do using QWERTY, but it is far more comfortable in the same way that lounging in a chair feels more comfortable than sitting on a stool. Typing is effortless as compared with typing in QWERTY because of the economy of motion it has with Colemak (and I presume Dvorak as well). I just measured my typing speed at 78 WPM so people can definitely achieve better typing speeds than me with QWERTY if they are dedicated, but I still wouldn’t go back to QWERTY.
This pretty much describes my experience with Dvorak. I’ll just add that my learning hump was a few weeks long; I’d recommend learning an alternate layout during an extended period when your typing efficiency can afford to plummet.
I type around 100 wpm with Qwerty, which is plenty for conversations on IRC and forum typing. I don’t program or anything like that