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Re: dvorak
« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2006, 05:39:12 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on March 27, 2006, 02:40:19 am

I dunno, I'm in favor of anything that's different and lets me feel slightly superior. As long as it doesn't make me feel like a jerk.


You might want to also give some thought to whether it makes you look or act like a jerk. I think a lot of people get irritated with people who like to feel 'slightly superior'. You're gonna have to get a job sometime....

Also, how does this work when the keyboard market is worldwide? The story of this entire 'movement' is fo rme summed up by the little picture of a Mac in one of the frames of the comic.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #31 on: March 27, 2006, 11:22:48 pm »
hm. I dunno. I'm just using my normal keyboard. my computer is a laptop, so, buying a keyboard seems silly.

also: I believe that I am generally concieved as acting like a non-jerk. Mostly because I keep my pretensions to myself. (also, most of those things got old after like a week. when you're a teenager, you can get away with this.)
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2006, 11:50:16 pm »
I've always been baffled by the crap on ThinkGeek. Do people really buy it? Like, seriously? I'll confess that I was tempted to buy my weird RenFesty friend the pocketwatch with a little Stonehenge replica inside once, but damn, seriously?

Also, is looking at the keys really what keeps people's typing slow? I mean, I'm not an uberfast typist (sorry, can't be bothered with the umlaut -- I'm a plebe) and I never have to look at the keyboard to tell me where a key is. Is this really a huge issue for anyone who can touch-type reliably?
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #33 on: March 28, 2006, 02:24:53 am »
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I've always been baffled by the crap on ThinkGeek. Do people really buy it? Like, seriously? I'll confess that I was tempted to buy my weird RenFesty friend the pocketwatch with a little Stonehenge replica inside once, but damn, seriously?

Also, is looking at the keys really what keeps people's typing slow? I mean, I'm not an uberfast typist (sorry, can't be bothered with the umlaut -- I'm a plebe) and I never have to look at the keyboard to tell me where a key is. Is this really a huge issue for anyone who can touch-type reliably?

For myself I've bought a couple things. I got a golf/polo shirt with the infinity symbol on the breast and the big green blanket with a 42 which is astoundingly warm. Maybe a little itchy but really really warm. If I'd seen it before I bought a similar Timberland hat I would've bought the 1-Up Mushroom wool cap.

As for non-apparel we bought the SO's dad the Swiss Army USB drive and he loves it. I also got him the ethernet loopback and crossover adapters which he uses all the time as poeple are always asking him to fix their home networks.

I need to look at the keys for the symbols over the numbers because I can never keep any of them straight other than ! for some reason.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #34 on: March 28, 2006, 05:23:23 am »
I got so confused the other day when I realized that the ! is over the 1. I'm not sure where I thought it was instead, but I didn't think I knew any of the ones over the numbers. Hmm.

Yeah, I mean, I don't really look at the keys... I dont' see how that would make you much faster.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #35 on: March 28, 2006, 06:47:32 pm »
I type faster when I'm not looking at the keyboard or the screen, so that I can't see the mistakes I'm making.  I also make fewer mistakes this way.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #36 on: March 28, 2006, 07:24:21 pm »
OK, everyone go play this game.
http://www.2addicted.com/domains/words

I can usually get up around 2000.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #37 on: March 28, 2006, 07:55:01 pm »
When if comes to odd words I suck at typing. My fingers work in their own little way so words that I don't ever type are a bit slower and messier. That is a fun game though.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #38 on: March 28, 2006, 08:07:35 pm »
2580, 5th place at this moment.  Yay me.
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« Reply #39 on: March 28, 2006, 08:23:36 pm »
That rocks, Carlos. 

I got 44th place.  One problem I have is that when the words start moving fast I have trouble seeing them.  The letters get hard to visually distinguish.
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« Reply #40 on: March 28, 2006, 08:41:59 pm »
I'm excited to know a celebrity! Are you going to go for the WIN Carlos? Because I have money on you within the 2addicted underground online black bookie.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #41 on: March 28, 2006, 09:46:18 pm »
August, I had that problem too.  The physical "what the hell is that blured word?" was way harder than trying to type fast.

Also, I find that words I do not know how to spell properly are much slower for me to type than words where I know how to spell the whole word quickly.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #42 on: March 29, 2006, 12:54:18 am »
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #43 on: March 29, 2006, 01:15:40 am »
man, I was bad at that. I make a lot of errors typing. Hm. Mostly that I'd skip letters, and keep going because of my raw speed.
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Re: dvorak
« Reply #44 on: March 31, 2006, 05:14:00 pm »
Quote from: V-Adore on March 27, 2006, 11:50:16 pm
I've always been baffled by the crap on ThinkGeek. Do people really buy it? Like, seriously? I'll confess that I was tempted to buy my weird RenFesty friend the pocketwatch with a little Stonehenge replica inside once, but damn, seriously?

Dammit, I so want a genuine 1up Mushroom. I demand somebody get to genetically engineering these immediately.
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