Then you don't use the letter M?
Oh, this reminds me showing Dvorak to a colleague. He asks: "So, where is the letter A?"
- "Mmm, right here, where it is in Qwerty."
- "OK. And where is, for example, letter M?"
- "Mmm, right here, where it is in Qwerty."
- "So, what's the point, then?"
Re:Dvorak vs Colemak (2010-2020)
by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:24PM
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Hm, you are right! M is too on the same place in both layouts, but I never had a hesitation with it. Maybe it only applied to vowels
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Sounds like a good explanation.
Also, if I have two passwords AA and AB that are similar to each other, then, if I use only AA for a while, I easily forget AB, or start including parts of AA in AB. — Is there a word for this? For forgetting and messing/mixing up things, because they are too similar to each other
I'm not a Colemak user, but from my experiences with Dvorak, I have a theory on why this happens. Precisely because it shares many keys with QWERTY!
Explanation: when I type in Dvorak or QWERTY, the only hesitation is when I type the first letter of a text I need to type. Then, a muscle memory kicks in and I type without thinking. The only exception: words starting with letter "A". This letter is special, because it is the only key that has the same position in both Dvorak and QWERTY!
So when I type words starting with "A", my muscle memory kicks in not on first typed letter, but on second! With Colemak, I guess this effect might be in full swing for almost every letter you type, and THAT would be a significant problem. So what is sold as being Colemak's advantage is probably a disadvantage if you need to type on different types of keyboards.