Re: A question about Dvorak's original arrangement of numerals - 7531902468

I use the Dvorak-classic keyboard layout on Ubuntu.  (I upgraded, and
the layout works as well as any other preinstalled layout.)

My experience is that, with the staggered layout of most typewriter
keyboards, one has only to move the hand(s) straight up to the number
row as if it were a home row.  Doing that, it places all the numerals
and only numerals under the hands: odd to the left, even to the right.

Such a numerical layout does get annoying on modified keyboards such as
the straight-aligned TypeMatrix keyboards, but that's not something I
could see Dvorak considering when his design was finalized.

Personally, I like reaching straight up instead of at an angle to hit
number keys.  The only exception is the middle keys: 9 and 0.  I think
shifting the numbers back to qwerty position while keeping them in
Dvorak order is a good idea for non-typewriter style keyboards, but not
quite as good for traditional typewriter style.

But that's just me, and I've never been accused of being normal.

-ArielMT

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:07:15 -0000 shinywong wrote:

> In an original Dvorak Keyboard, the order of numerals are 7531902468, 
> but the number 7 was put in the place of QWERTY's key 2. What does it 
> mean? Do you have to press the key 7 with your pinky finger? I found
> it very uncomfortable to press it with my left pinky finger (mainly 
> because your hand have to move a lot to reach the key). I created my 
> own keyboard, I had the numbers in the original order of Dvorak 
> keyboard - 7531902468, but I put the number 7 in QWERTY's key 1 place.
> 
> What do you think, which is better? 
> THX. 
> 
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