And unless someone plans to pay for an extensive scientific study, the best evidence is probably just trying it yourself.īy the way if speed is all you care about, then stick with what you know–Dvorak may or may not help you there. And even then, who’s to say that every subjective statement is automatically ‘wrong’? They may have just not been fully tested in a completely scientific way yet, but there’s plenty of facts out there that can be obtained from various sources to help you come to your own conclusion. There is plenty written of keyboard layouts beyond the purely obviously subjective, and it’s not too difficult to separate facts from subjectivity. It can go much deeper than the original way to obtain the scoville ratings, which was just having a panel of people eat one and see how it goes–subjectively. But that’s not the point the point was, if you’d read just a bit deeper you’d find out about things like high-performance liquid chromatography, which is a fancy ‘scientific’ way to find the actual heat level at the source–through the testing the pepper to find the actual amount of capsaicin for that pepper.
No, actually it is the subjectiveness or individual tolerance to capsaicinoids, taste is not quite where the heat comes from. well over a decade I’ve been touchtyping QWERTY. I had already reached my old average for shorter bursts by that time and could tell there was plenty of improvement to be made. I still need some practice on it, I have only been using it since early December and had to abruptly stop due to real life getting in the way earlier this month. You feel as if you’re typing slower than you actually are because your hands aren’t flying all over the place, yet the speeds are comparable. The difference can be felt in the form of a reduction or even complete elimination of hand/wrist/arm fatigue and/or pain. The efficiency gained by the greatly reduced workload of the fingers is real.
By two or two and a half months, you’ll never want to go back. By a month and a half you’re really starting to get a feel for it. Three or four weeks in you get an optimistic glimpse of what’s to come. The Dvorak layout really is a pleasure to type on. As a user of the layout and previously a QWERTY user my entire life, I can confidently call bullshit on the vast majority of them. There is plenty of controversy over the layout, mostly baseless. This post goes into more detail about which O rings to use, providing links to two sellers… though McMaster-Carr only accepts non-U.S. (I’m using a Rosewill RK-9000I which, unlike that page’s claim about the normal RK-9000, does have laser-etched labels on the keycaps) Here’s a good starter guide to all the details about choosing a keyboard and how various mechanical boards stack up: (I don’t currently use O rings, hence the “when I type softly enough”.) (Just buy a $3 keycap puller or take a loop of dental floss if you’re desperate, pull straight up on the keycap, slide the ring onto the circular stem on underside of the key (not the +-shaped stem it mates with on the switch), and then replace the keycap and press all the way down to seat the ring)Īs a comparison, I’d say that when I type softly enough to avoid bottoming out my Cherry MX Blues, it sounds to be about as loud as scrunching up a plastic shopping bag. With mechanical switches, they register at about half-press by design and you can feel (tactile) and/or hear (clicky) most types.)įurthermore, some keyboards have the option to come with O rings on the key stems so you don’t bottom them out and make noise and you can easily retrofit any Cherry MX-series switch with an O ring. (With membrane keyboards, you have to bottom out the keys to ensure they register, which means slamming them into the backboard and wasting energy making noise.
Mechanical switches don’t need to bottom out to register and even the “clicky” Cherry MX Blue switches are quieter than the sound of the quietest membrane keys I’ve ever found. I’ve seen glowing praise for those IBM-style clicky keyboards over the years, and even considered getting one (especially after getting RSI from my HP ultrabook’s chiclet keyboard).īut my work is based on audio-conferencing: I couldn’t have other people hearing all that clicking while we’re trying to speak.
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