The tutorial starts with pairs of letters from the Dvorak home row (uh, et, on, as, id) and then adds pairs of keys from the top row and then the bottom row. As the typist learns more letters, the words in the tutorial
become sentences and paragraphs.
The ABCD tutorial isn't timed, leaving it up to the learners to increase their speed on their own on subsequent attempts at the tutorials.
The next two tutorials don't introduce letters as slowly as ABCD, and not in the same order. That makes them more difficult to learn from, but well-suited for use as reviews.
Dvorak Tutorial 2: PowerTyping.com
The PowerTyping tutorial (click [Dvorak] to get to the lessons), which uses combinations of letters rather than actual words, starts with the basic eight letters, and adds more letters and punctuation in groups of four.
You can set a speed to aim for to track your progress.
The games at PowerTyping provide a fun break from the tutorials. Some are much harder than others, and they all require knowing all the letters. However, on the lowest setting, some (especially "Alpha Rain," in which individual letters fall from the top of the screen) are slow enough that you can look at your printed keyboard layout and find the letters you haven't learned yet.
Dvorak Tutorial 3: dvorak.nl
The dvorak.nl site is the simplest: it displays words one at a time. When the word is typed properly, the next word is displayed. You can choose words from a wide variety of languages that use the Roman alphabet.
The dvorak.nl site's simplest level uses words made up of only the eight home keys (aoeuhtns). Higher levels use letters from the entire home row, the home row plus the "inner" letters on the top and bottom rows, the home row plus the "outer" letters on the top and bottom rows, or the whole alphabet.
One nice touch to this site is the ability to remap a QWERTY keyboard to the Dvorak layout.
The ABCD tutorial isn't timed, leaving it up to the learners to increase their speed on their own on subsequent attempts at the tutorials.
The next two tutorials don't introduce letters as slowly as ABCD, and not in the same order. That makes them more difficult to learn from, but well-suited for use as reviews.
Dvorak Tutorial 2: PowerTyping.com
The PowerTyping tutorial (click [Dvorak] to get to the lessons), which uses combinations of letters rather than actual words, starts with the basic eight letters, and adds more letters and punctuation in groups of four.
You can set a speed to aim for to track your progress.
The games at PowerTyping provide a fun break from the tutorials. Some are much harder than others, and they all require knowing all the letters. However, on the lowest setting, some (especially "Alpha Rain," in which individual letters fall from the top of the screen) are slow enough that you can look at your printed keyboard layout and find the letters you haven't learned yet.
Dvorak Tutorial 3: dvorak.nl
The dvorak.nl site is the simplest: it displays words one at a time. When the word is typed properly, the next word is displayed. You can choose words from a wide variety of languages that use the Roman alphabet.
The dvorak.nl site's simplest level uses words made up of only the eight home keys (aoeuhtns). Higher levels use letters from the entire home row, the home row plus the "inner" letters on the top and bottom rows, the home row plus the "outer" letters on the top and bottom rows, or the whole alphabet.
One nice touch to this site is the ability to remap a QWERTY keyboard to the Dvorak layout.
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