FFDDO@ALASKA.BITNET (12/21/87)
Does anyone out there know of a Dvorak typing tutor program? I would be very interested to purchase it if it exists. Thanks in advance. David Oberhart <FFDDO@Alaska>
fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) (12/23/87)
In article <8712202246.aa12510@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>, FFDDO@ALASKA.BITNET writes: > Does anyone out there know of a Dvorak typing tutor program? > I would be very interested to purchase it if it exists. > Thanks in advance. This may be out of date, but here goes: Back when the Apple//c was introduced, Scarborough (I think) introduced a typing tutor that ran on the //c. If you took the diskette and inserted it label-side-down and booted, the program ran as a Dvorak tutor. (You had to push the keyboard switch on the //c for it to be really useful...) Not all the exercises were duplicated (with appropriate changes for homerow layout, of course), but the ones that weren't on the back side didn't matter. After you get past the first set and know the layout pretty well, any practice is about as effective. Btw, except that getting going on the position of keys for the first day or so is harder (and help screens most definitely *don't*!), a qwerty tutor works pretty much as well as a "Dvorak" one. I decided to learn Dvorak back in the dark ages with my Apple///...took about two weeks and I was more comfortable with Dvorak than qwerty. After an afternoon, I was doing acceptable amounts of work. No typing tutor, just put up a sketch of the key layout below the monitor and *don't look at the keyboard!* for a while. However you do it, do it! Dvorak is much nicer, less tiring, and all around better than qwerty. Good luck. seh