Learning Dvorak

Video Documentation by Week:

01 Introduction of Coach Dvorak, a Superior Keyboard Layout

02 Practice progress, updates, test, etc.

03 Practice progress, updates, test, etc.

04 progress, updates, test, etc.

05 progress, updates, test, etc.

06 progress, updates, test, etc.

07 Dvorak Remixed

08 Maker Faire

09 n/a

10 Final Results and Tests

Other Information:

Practice Log
Results: Gross, Net, and Accuracy
Links

Practice Log

date	exercise	source	start	finish	notes
2/18/08	drills	abcd site	11:17	11:32	completed lessons 1 – 5 (home row)
2/19/08	drills	abcd site	17:38	18:17	completed lessons 6 – 9, homerow completed
2/23/08	drills	abcd site	12:04	12:38	completed lessons 9 – 11, reaching up letter p and g
2/23/08	drills	abcd site	18:52	19:18	completed lessons 12 – 13, reaching up . And c
2/23/08	test	typingtest.com	19:30	-	qwerty and dvorak test, week 02
2/24/08	drills	abcd site	12:45	13:12	completed lesson 14, reaching up, r and colon
2/28/08	drills	abcd site	9:30	9:45	comleted lessons 16 – 18, ‘ & L, reaching up w/ fourth fingers
2/28/08	application	career center	8:45	13:00	using dvorak for all tasks, except where major speed is needed such as dictating.
2/28/08	application	art 106	15:00	18:00	using dvorak for entire class session
2/28/08	drills	abcd site	20:30	21:00	completed lessons 19 – 21, Y & F + K & M (reaching down)
2/28/08	application	study session	21:00	23:00	used dvorak
2/28/08	application	bus 146	13:30	16:30	using dvorak for entire class session, switched to straight dvorak to avoid confusion
3/1/08	change	laptop	-	-	using dvorak for all tasks, typing qwerty is increasingly difficult at this point.
3/1/08	drills	abcd site	15:42	16:00	completed lessons 22 – 23, J+W
3/1/08	test	typingtest.com	16:02	-	change: dvorak then querty
3/2/08	drills	abcd site	9:50	10:30	completed all lessons
3/8/08	drills	powertyping.com	15:00	15:45	lessons + review 1 – 6, about 33 wpm, but huge error counts in the latter lessons, about 1 to 0.5 errors per word
3/8/08	test	typingtest.com	16:00	-	dvorak, and querty
3/9/08	drills	powertyping.com	10:50	11:24	r,l,r if needed, otherwise just review. 42, 39, 36, 32, 35, 32 about ten errors for first r, 35/77 for 6. 6 needs major work, 4-5 need review (lower error counts this time)
3/10/08	drills	powertyping.com	18:30	18:50	contration on lesson 6, emphasis on accuracy, very slight improvement
3/12/08	drills	powertyping.com	21:51	22:17	review lessons, played barricuda
3/16/08	drills	powertyping.com	13:05	13:34	common word tests 1-3 38wpm, accuracy poor
3/16/08	test	typingtest.com	13:45	-	dvorak, and querty
3/27/08	test	typingtest.com	10:35	-	dvorak, and querty
4/20/08	drills	powertyping.com	16:52	17:10	played some typing games
4/20/08	test	typingtest.com	20:10	-	dvorak, and querty

Results

Gross WPM:

	week 01 – baseline	week 02	week 03	week 04	week 05	week 06	week 07	week 08	week 09	week 10 – final	average
qwerty	85	83	18	18	20	16				21	37.3
dvorak	11	16	26	35	43	47				50	32.6

Net WPM:

	week 01 – baseline	week 02	week 03	week 04	week 05	week 06	week 07	week 08	week 09	week 10 – final	average
qwerty	77	78	16	14	18	14				20	33.8
dvorak	9	15	22	32	40	44				46	29.7

Accuracy:

	week 01 – baseline	week 02	week 03	week 04	week 05	week 06	week 07	week 08	week 09	week 10 – final	average
qwerty	90%	94%	89%	78%	93%	88%				95%	90%
dvorak	91%	93%	85%	91%	93%	93%				92%	91%