Dvorak, Day 47

37 wpm, 5 mistakes. I am making an effort to touch-type, hence the increased number of errors.

Today's text was taken from The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Huzzah for early SciFi!

Dvorak, Day 38

33 wpm, 0 mistakes. Today's excerpt came from Shakespeare's Henry V. It was the "once more into the breach" part -- a great bit, methinks. This typing test has good taste, I must say.

Dvorak, Day 29

30 wpm, 2 mistakes. Today's passage was excerpted from Thackeray's Vanity Fair.

I'm posting increasingly infrequently simply because there isn't much to report with this sort of experiment, except for the relevant data point. My apologies for... well, being boring, I suppose.

Polyphasic Sleep: A Reflection

It has been a full quarter since I embarked upon the polyphasic sleep experiment. Overall, I would say that it was a good idea. I liked it enough to resume Everyman this quarter. (I went monophasic over Spring Break, to avoid suspicion, and it was quite a surreal experience!) Some thoughts:

• Uberman is not for me. It's not that it's physically too difficult (I had enough consecutive successful days to demonstrate otherwise); rather, my schedule simply doesn't accommodate such a rigid sleep cycle. Between my extracurriculars (such as debating in a different time zone a few weekends per quarter) and my classes, it was getting impossible to fix my schedule such that I had the same twenty minute periods free every day.
• For the sake of a good roommate relationship, I need to time my core sleep such that I wake up at a relatively normal hour every day. While I can go to bed as late as I want to, I can't set alarms for 7:00 am, because my roommate would not appreciate being woken at that hour.
• In retrospect, I probably should have kept to a slightly more rigid schedule of naps. By the time I switched to Everyman, I had gotten a bit lazy in that regard. I took naps whenever convenient, so long as I got in the right number of naps.
• I seem to like lunchtime, right before dinnertime, and between 11:00pm and 2:00am naps.

At this point, I don't think polyphasic sleep is an experiment anymore; it has become more of a lifestyle choice. I shall soon be readapted, and I don't plan on resuming regular posting on the subject -- I'll post if anything out of the ordinary happens.