I’ve recently started trying to improve my typing speed, which has probably been held back by my somewhat unconventional typing style. Formal touch typing was never a part of my education, and while years of computer use eventually led to me being able to type without looking, I’m probably not as efficient as I could be.
Can you touch type - and with proper form? QWERTY, DVORAK or other layout?
Yeah, ever since we learned it in middle school. QWERTZ
How to tell us you’re German without telling us you’re German 😄
As a Belgian, we have AZERTY as standard, which is so much worse. I wish we could’ve followed the German instead of the French influence keyboard-wise.
Oh my god the AZERTY… I naively tried it out for like a week or two and quickly gave up on the idea. The numbers and symbols being the reverse of QWERTY was just way too much of a headache, especially for programming. Unfortunately workplace requires all work computers to have AZERTY so
dang that’s tough. Usually they ask me what I’m used to, not sure if I could accept a job offer if it came with azerty 😆
I too live in Belgium and azerty is absolutely the worst, i hace it sometimes at uni. Luckily i grew up using qwertz, later switching to qwerty.
Argh sometimes even, that’s annoying! Luckily the changes are quite limited for non-symbol keys. Still I usually just add the qwerty keyboard layout if not present. This approach costs me the least time.
Qwerty and qwertz are pretty similar, recently even changed to qwerty full time only using qwertz (blind) for special german characters. Before uni we had mandatory school laptops in azerty, and indeed the best method than was to jusr change it in windows and blind type.
Um. What?
I was under the impression QWERTZ was a German thing, seems it covers a much bigger area than that! Apologies!
One of the most useful things we learned in school 100%