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Can you touch type? (lemmy.world)
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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?

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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    especially for programming Indeed! I grew up with azerty and still got tired quickly of pressing shift for most of the most basic symbols. Before learning to code, I don't really remember having issues with azerty.

    workplace requires all work computers to have AZERTY

    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 😆

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    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.

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