[CW] Re: CW] CW "Interference" When Learning Typing

[Donald Chester]

>Your tale of woe is fascinating! My 'my problem of learning to touch type'
>is not as comlex, but it has wrecked my ability to copy CW on a keyboard
>at the speeds I can read CW.
>

Learn the Dvorak keyboard.  It is already installed in all versions of 
Windows (at least since Win95), as well as late versions of Macintosh.  I 
downloaded a tutorial from the net, and it took me about 3 weeks of 
practice, 20 minutes a day, to master the keyboard.  Within a month or so, 
my typing speed far exceeded anything I was ever able to do with the 
"standard" keyboard, which was designed to deliberately make it more 
difficult to type at high speeds, to avoid jamming the keys on mechanical 
typewriters.  With Dvorak, 80% of your keystrokes are on the home row.

For more info, do a search for "Dvorak".  Yes, you will get a lot of hits 
related to the famous music composer, but check out the ones related to the 
keyboard.

Don K4KYV

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