I've always wanted to learn Dvorak keyboarding, maybe this will help: A Basic Course in Dvorak. I failed keyboarding in high school, not for shortcomings in my typing but for talking. Maybe students should get graded on their ability in the given subject and then get a separate rider for other, wanted or unwanted, characteristics? Many years later in a community college C++ class one of my fellow students, a going-gray-around-the-temples-radio-shack-manager looking fellow, told me that if I worked for him and typed like that (I whack the keys pretty hard) he'd fire me on the spot. It's true. If keyboards were pressure sensitive then everything I type would be in ALL BOLD CAPS and burning out the phosphor on your monitor.

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