teilodv Teilo DV
| Rank | 3281 / 327552 |
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| Number of games | 435 |
| Best game | 148.72 |
| Recent speed average of the last games |
112.85 |
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| Old speed average of the first games |
117.49 |
| All time speed | 117.81 |
| Recent accuracy average of the last games |
97.73% |
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| Old accuracy average of the first games |
95.48% |
| Peter Coffey | 106.17 | 96.5% | 6 years, 5 months ago |
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| Christine P. | 99.82 | 93.5% | 6 years, 5 months ago |
| John Berger | 116.71 | 98.3% | 6 years, 5 months ago |
| Golden Time Episode 23- Tada Banri | 121.77 | 100% | 6 years, 5 months ago |
| Captain Jack Sparrow | 110.27 | 100% | 6 years, 5 months ago |
| Kiera Cass | 96.45 | 94.0% | 6 years, 5 months ago |
| Lelouch Lamperouge- Code Geass | 117.19 | 100% | 6 years, 5 months ago |
| Swami Vivekananda | 118.21 | 99.4% | 6 years, 5 months ago |
| Henry James | 124.57 | 95.7% | 7 years, 7 months ago |
| W.Somerset Maugham | 117.37 | 100% | 7 years, 7 months ago |
| Years ago I first learned to touch type on Dvorak. I picked up a lot of bad habits, and peaked around 80+ WPM for many years with mediocre accuracy. A few years ago, I switched to Colemak, and my accuracy improved substantially. I peaked at the high 90s. Here is the my profile from that era: https://www.keyhero.com/profile/teilo/ Some time later, I decided to go to Qwerty, but using the Kazantsev fingering method. Again my accuracy improved, and I was into the low 100s: https://www.keyhero.com/profile/teil0/ And now, because I cannot give my brain a rest, I returned to my first layout, Dvorak. I am regularly in the 120s now after only a couple months, and still improving. I can hit the high 130s on a regular basis now. Lessons learned: Could I retain my previous layout when learning a new one? No. I tried every time. Didn't work without impeding my progress. Is there a difference between layouts? Yes. When I went back to Dvorak I had significantly less finger strain and could hammer out combinations with less thought and effort than on Qwerty or Colemak. Will a layout prevent you from attaining a high speed? No. The differences between layouts do not matter. Don't buy into the hype. You can attain a high speed on any reasonably good layout. The ability of the brain to master a skill far exceeds the intrinsic limitations of any given keyboard layout. If your goal is to win typing competitions, one layout is nearly as good as any other. Why does changing layouts help you improve? Because it forces you to relearn everything and this gives you the opportunity to break deeply ingrained bad habits. The single best thing I did to improve my typing was to learn a different layout (now for the 3rd time!). But it would not have mattered which layout I did this with. Why go back to Dvorak instead of something even more optimized, like Workman or QGMLWY? Practicality. Dvorak has universal OS support, and has for many years. Even Colemak, which is gaining a lot of support, was a PITA because I had to install a special layout on older versions of Windows. Dvorak is everywhere, even on mobile. What is QGMLWY? See here: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/ |
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| Last login | 5 years, 6 months ago |
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| Date joined | 7 years, 11 months ago |
| Keyboard / Laptop | WASDkeyboard |
| Keyboard mapping | DVORAK |
| Computer usage | 0-4 hours / day |
| Quotes | 1 |
