Installing Dvorak Resources

• How to Switch to Dvorak (and Other Keyboard Layouts) on Your Computer or Phone by How To Geek
  • Link: https://www.howtogeek.com/263849/how-to-switch-to-dvorak-and-other-keyboard-layouts-on-your-computer-or-phone/
  • Notes: Guide for Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS
• How to change keyboard layout on Windows 10 by Windows Central
  • Link: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-your-keyboard-layout-windows-10
• Use Dvorak keyboard layouts on Mac
  • Link: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh27976/mac
• Linux: How to Switch to Dvorak Keyboard Layout
  • Link: http://xahlee.info/linux/linux_switch_keyboard_layout.html

Dvorak Touch Typing Courses

• TypingClub.com
  • Link: https://www.edclub.com/library/dvorak
• learn.dvorak.nl
  • Link: https://learn.dvorak.nl/
• Typing.com
  • Link: https://www.typing.com/student/lesson/388/dvorak-part-1
• DitchQwerty.com
  • Link: https://ditchqwerty.com/
• TypingCat.com
  • Link: https://thetypingcat.com/typing-courses/basic
  • Notes: May need to go to the TypingCat home page scroll to the bottom and click “Learn Dvorak”

Speed Typing Applications/Games

• TypeRacer
  • Link: https://play.typeracer.com/
• Monkeytype
  • Link: https://monkeytype.com/
• 10FastFingers
  • Link: https://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english
• Nitro Type
  • Link: https://www.nitrotype.com/
• Keybr.com
  • Link: https://www.keybr.com/
• zType
  • Link: https://zty.pe/

Additional Dvorak Resources

• Dvertkey AutoHotkey Script
  • Description: Github repository that contains Autohotkey scripts that returns QWERTY when the ctrl and/or alt keys are pressed. Used to retain standard hotkey combinations used by the operating system.
  • Link: https://github.com/imathew/dvertkey
• Dvorak keyboard layout by Wikipedia
  • Description: Wikipedia article about the Dvorak Simplified Layout and its variations
  • Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout

Programmer Dvorak Resources

• Programmer Dvorak Keyboard Layout by Roland Kaufmann
  • Link: https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
• Programmer Dvorak Download
  • https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/#downloads
• Programmer Dvorak Typing Tutorial by Denis Kniazhev
  • Link: http://programmer-dvorak.appspot.com/
• Learn Programmer Dvorak course by TypingCat.com
  • https://thetypingcat.com/
• Dvorak-Qwerty-Programming Layout by u/verysaltyfish
  • Link: https://github.com/WizardMaggot/Dvorak-Qwerty-Programming

One Handed Dvorak Resources

• Learn Left-Handed Dvorak by Henri
  • Link: https://loboru.github.io/
• Your Guide to 10+ One-hand Typing Options
  • Description: Blog article on one handed typing options for temporarily and/or permanently impaired typists, includes mention of one-handed Dvorak
  • Link: https://kpronline.com/blog/your-guide-to-10-one-hand-typing-options/

Non-English Dvorak Resources

• Dvorak keyboard layout, Spanish variant by Ignacio Fernández Galván
  • Link: https://jellby.altervista.org/dvorak/index.php
• Using Dvorak to Type in French
  • Description: Reddit thread where comments give resources on using Dvorak in French, be it use of new layouts or AutoHotkey scripts
  • Link: https://www.reddit.com/dvorak/comments/6nb6yi/using_dvorak_to_type_in_french/
• Dvorak-fr by Francis Leboutte
  • Description: Dvorak layout designed with French diacritics and accents in mind
  • Link: https://www.algo.be/ergo/dvorak-fr.html
• Popak, Romainian Dvorak layout by Clubul Învațăsingur
  • Link: http://www.invatasingur.ro/popak/index.php
• UK Dvorak
  • Description: Dvorak layout but with features similar to UK QWERTY keyboards such as the swapping of “ and @, alt-Gr, and €/£ keys.
  • Link: https://www.thespicers.net/uk-dvorak-keyboard-layout
• Svorak, Swedish Dvorak layout by Magnus Engström
  • Description: Svorak layout places the three extra Swedish vowels (å, ä and ö) on the leftmost three keys of the upper row, which correspond to punctuation symbols on the English Dvorak layout.
  • Link: http://aoeu.info/s/dvorak/svorak

Dvorak Communities

• Dvorak Keyboard Discord
  • Link: https://discord.gg/ucdFYz4E
• dvorak
  • Link: https://www.reddit.com/dvorak/

Dvorak/Alternate Layout Content

• NoThisIsJohn
  • Description: Fastest Dvorak typist in the world, creates content on alternate keyboard layouts, speed typing, and mechanical keyboards
  • Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2xw-F0lBbPX0MV2Ezp833A
  • Sample Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVejEMOD4cw
• “How I went from 10 to 130 WPM in 3 months” by pinguefy
  • Description: User learns Workman keyboard layout in 3 months. Mostly a motivational piece with advice on how to learn alternate keyboard layouts.
  • Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Nb9QVujgU

Stage 1A: Tools + Habits

• watching dramas without subtitles -- This month I watched You're Beautiful out of nostalgia. It was the second drama I ever watched, and I'm just really grateful the quality of new shows has increased over the years. I would have watched a second one, but the JCS Criminal Psychology Youtube channel stole like a whole week of free time from me.
• webtoons -- I'll scroll through a random chapter before bed trying to pick out words that I know. I wasn't interested in webtoons before, but I've found a couple now that I wish I could understand.
• TPRS Youtube videos -- Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling is a method of learning that really appeals to me, especially since I'm focusing on listening skills. I haven't yet found exactly what I'm looking for in a channel, but I did find Comprehensible Korean and KSTYLES. I also listened to The Giving Tree on Intuit Korean's channel, which you can check out if you feel like crying.

• Uh, well, I listened to HYUKOH's album 23 on repeat ^{but that probably definitely doesn't count.}

Stage 1B: Building Blocks

• 한글 -- Learn Korean in Korean's Korean alphabet playlist is where it's at, man. He goes through everything -- each sound, how to write it, and listening practice. He emphasizes the mouth movements that go along with each sound, which was insanely helpful. I loved that it was all in Korean but completely understandable. After going through the whole playlist, it's so much easier to distinguish syllables when characters speak, and I just cannot recommend it enough.
• pronunciation -- I went through Talk to Me in Korean's Korean Pronunciation Guide. I liked how they used visuals for the tongue positions of some of the consonants because once I got my tongue into the correct position, the batchim sound changes that happen seemed a lot more intuitive and natural. I watched all four videos from Fluent Forever on pronunciation, which were also really helpful. I also checked out a few pronunciation videos on Your Korean Saem's channel, especially the one comparing ㅅ and ㅆ. (No, I still can't really hear the difference.)
• learning to type -- I used 타닥타닥 to learn how to type and then 10FastFingers to practice. Then I typed out sentences for 1000 flashcards, so yeah, I can definitely type now.

Stage 1C: Jumpstart Comprehension

• How to Study Korean -- I skimmed, and I truly mean skimmed, Lessons 1-8. I just wanted to get a very basic idea of what kind of things existed in Korean grammar before I started making Anki cards. I became aware of particles, general ways that some of them function in sentences, how sentences are set up (SOV), and what the endings for different tenses look like. I've read some not great things about this site, so I don't imagine that I'll go back to it.
• Talk to Me in Korean's Essential Korean Course -- I've only gotten partway through Level 2 so far, but this is what I plan on using for my main grammar study for now. The lessons are short(ish) and seem pretty lowkey so far.

• Anki deck of the 1000 most frequent words -- I made Anki cards for the first 1000 entries in Routledge's A Frequency Dictionary of Korean. The dictionary included particles, which I also included in my deck, and I about died when I reached the 500s and I was still typing out particles for practically every other card. ^{Okay, so that might have been an exaggeration, but there are a lot more than I was expecting, and I was definitely questioning whether or not I should just switch to Spanish.} The cards have just the audio for the word and the audio for the example sentence on the front. All the written information is on the back. I just started the deck a week ago, and I'm doing 10 new cards/day. I started with 20, but it was too overwhelming with audio cards.

Goals for Month 2

• TTMIK Essential Korean Courses Level 3-6 [1 level/week]
• TTMIK IYAGI Beginner
• TTMIK How Korean Sentences Work
• Learn Korean in Korean Level 1 [however much I feel like doing]
• This minimal pairs deck [7 new cards/day]
• my 1000 most frequent words Anki deck [10 new cards/day]
• watch one previously seen drama without subtitles each week
• find at least one Korean knitting Youtube channel to follow
• find a reality tv show that's enjoyable to watch (Is there a show like 90 Day Fiance or Love Island in Korean? Yes, I know they are absolute garbage, and it was probably quarantine getting to me, but I binged the crap out of them.)
• stay tf off Reddit and stop watching videos on how to learn a language and actually study instead

1. Blocksite - BlockSite - Stay Focused & Control Your Time - Chrome Web Store (google.com)
2. StayFocused - StayFocusd - Chrome Web Store (google.com)

1. NoFap Emergency - Provides motivation
2. Typing Test English - 10FastFingers.com - It's a typing speed test. I started using this last month and I my typing speed increased dramatically. (I recommend learning the proper fingering)
3. Learn something new, every day! (blinkist.com) - It gives one free summary of books daily.
4. nofap - I sometimes come here and read the posts to avoid urges.

TaDak TaDak

• Individual 한글 Placement - Helps you to memorize the layout of the keyboard
• Word Practice - like flashcards! You see a picture and the matching word in Korean and type it.
• Under 낱말연습 tab, you can practice with 우리낱말for user-submitted flashcards. Accuracy not ensured though because a lot of these are submitted by kids lol
• Sentence Practice - You can practice your 띄어쓰기 here and get a feedback on your typing speed (타자속도) and accuracy (정확도)

Hard Mode TaDak Games

• Dictation: You listen to the recording, type what the speaker says and get scored on your results. I have never gotten 100점 ㅠㅠ
• Puzzle: Guess the 2-3 character words from the 한글 provided. You’ll get a lot of practice furiously typing and wracking your brain for vocabulary that fit the possible combinations.

Hangul Attack

TypeRacer

Typing Tests

• Typing.Works (make sure to set it to “Native”)
• 10FastFingers