Umf. Sorry if I messed up your Comments page, it seems to be formatting oddly at the bottom. :( I scanned the comments and feel the need to share...
I was initially touchtyping QWERTY at somewhere in the 70+ wpm range. When I did the switch, I taught myself the layout by switching at home, opening a Notepad window and entering the rows, then did the alphabet. It took 35 tries for me to be able to do it without error, looking at my 'template'. It then took two weeks of struggling at home until I was OK with the layout, a week to accept that I'd learned the layout well enough that I was getting confused, then another two weeks to get back up to approx 70+ wpm. I'm now faster.
*impish grin* And I touchtype Dvorak in the dark. I have to, I don't have a Dvorak keyboard -- I have my OS (Windows 2000, Windows XP) remap the keyboard for me. :) I can also touchtype QWERTY still, but occasionally get confused when I start to really get going; fortunately, I don't have to use QWERTY all that often. I've also been known to hunt-n-peck and single-hand type Dvorak; it's occasionally hard to remember where d and t are, but I'm getting better. :)
I do that with Hebrew -- have XP remap the keyboard for me. Considering that the standard Hebrew keyboard layout is based on the Remington layout, as near as I can tell, I think I'd have an even harder time switching. I'm only now starting to remember where some of the sofit letters are, but then, I don't type in Hebrew all that much. (I'd demonstrate here, but I don't yet have r-to-l scripts enabled on the laptop, and I think I need to get the CD-R drive fixed before I can, bah.)
Now that is cool. I've a friend who uses a Turkish laptop, so her keyboard is actually a Turkish keyboard. The first time I saw it, I just sat there staring at it, wide-eyed; I knew intellectually that non-English keyboards exist, but actually seeing one was very cool.
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I was initially touchtyping QWERTY at somewhere in the 70+ wpm range. When I did the switch, I taught myself the layout by switching at home, opening a Notepad window and entering the rows, then did the alphabet. It took 35 tries for me to be able to do it without error, looking at my 'template'. It then took two weeks of struggling at home until I was OK with the layout, a week to accept that I'd learned the layout well enough that I was getting confused, then another two weeks to get back up to approx 70+ wpm. I'm now faster.
*impish grin* And I touchtype Dvorak in the dark. I have to, I don't have a Dvorak keyboard -- I have my OS (Windows 2000, Windows XP) remap the keyboard for me. :) I can also touchtype QWERTY still, but occasionally get confused when I start to really get going; fortunately, I don't have to use QWERTY all that often. I've also been known to hunt-n-peck and single-hand type Dvorak; it's occasionally hard to remember where d and t are, but I'm getting better. :)
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