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1) Comfort/reducing RSI. 2) Depends if you retain your ability to type with QWERTY or not. I type with Colemak at home and QWERTY at work. 3) Depending on how
by Nadya 10y ago
1) Comfort/reducing RSI.
2) Depends if you retain your ability to type with QWERTY or not. I type with Colemak at home and QWERTY at work.
3) Depending on how you type. I dislike split layouts because my left hand frequently hits my "right hand" keys.
4) Any non-trivial speed increases are likely entirely contributed to people learning how to properly type after switching keyboard layouts, IMO. Comfort/decrease of pain is tied to making both fewer and smaller movements when typing.
- lj3 10y ago> 1) Comfort/reducing RSI. That's why I switched. I was having some hand pains using Qwerty. I switched to Dvorak and never had those pains again. I never did get to the same speed in dvorak that I had in Qwerty. That's largely because I learned to type qwerty by playing MUDs, where fast typing can literally save your life. None of my dvorak typing has had the same sense of urgency. :)