This is a nerd thread!

 

Dvorak is definitely faster than Qwerty, but accuracy is going to depend on the user and what he's trying to accomplish.

I type 140wpm with 98% accuracy when I try, when I'm typing slowly and just hacking away at it, not caring at all, I type about 110 and 85%. I use Qwerty and it works for me.

A while back I moved to Dvorak for a little bit and I was faster at it, even after only using it for a month or so; but I was not nearly as accurate with it.

That said, I think typing is still a skill. The vast majority of people, including Computer Literate people, cannot type at a fast rate with a good accuracy percentage. Most people consider 30-60wpm "fast" but for a lot of company's and for things such as typing out reports in a timely manner, typing 2x that fast means you get it done 2x faster so long as you can be accurate.

So, skill? Yes. A good skill worth putting on your resume? I don't know about that. I do know that you'd never put "Dvorak Typing Skills" on a resume, because no one cares how you type it - just so long as you do in fact type it.

 

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Everytime that I'm typing people tell me to quit pushing buttons.

Then when my boss or other people in the office walk in and I look at them and talk to them while finishing what I was typing they trip.

So yes, I think it is a skill.

 

140wpm :eek3:

i do about 35-40 h:

 

all of this was typed in a matter of 7 seconds.

 

yeah, but I don't think there is as big a need for it as there was 30 years ago.
computer programs are do a lot of the work.

 

almost everyone in our generation knows how to type well...you wouldn't survive being on a computer for long if you didn't know how.

 

Yeah, me too. :bowdown: Antarius is the typing god.

 

I think if I sat down to a comp w/ a Dvorak keyboard... I would lose my mind.