Ryan Day

Ohhh does this suck. Its not so much the layout that gets me as it is the unix commands that are pure muscle memory. I am struggling to relearn everything. VI is a constant hurdle, all the small unix commands, ls, ps, god forbid I try to use a series of pipes. My usual IM responses are slow and useless. Like I had mentioned yesterday, I have to overcome almost two decades of typing to do this quickly. Maybe this is like a new language; the drunker I am, the less inhibited I’ll be, the better I will do.

I’m reminded of my quick productivity rant about how having to learn all these little tricks to increase speed just dont cut it. Even if I get better with dvorak then qwerty, how much will it really help? Im going to keep trying though.

I went to the five and below the other day and found a keyboard for five dollars. I decided this would be as good a time as any to learn the dvorak layout, I replaced all the keys to fit the dvorak layout and went to http://www.powertyping.com/dvorak/typing.html and was pretty suprised how quick it is to pick up. I’m actually typing with it now. The hardest part, I think, are the Ctrl+ keys. Its so ingrained that I still make a lot of mistakes. Also I never really learned to type with Qwerty. I only use a few fingers. Its just that after 20 years I don’t need to look at the keyboard to know where the keys are. So learning the proper way to type is a change as well.

Anyways, tomorrow I go to work and try it out there. So we shall see how low my productivity is.