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I thought the urban myth was about Dvorak being faster than qwerty. For english language Dvorak does increase center row usage vs. top and bottom row. And for
by rjzzleep 9y ago
I thought the urban myth was about Dvorak being faster than qwerty.
For english language Dvorak does increase center row usage vs. top and bottom row. And for programming there is programmers dvorak.
The absolute worst keyboard layout i've seen for programming is the german layout. Using modeswitch/altgr(yeah i know it's not quite the same) is absolutely terrible.
- jackcouch1 9y agoI'm not sure if Dvorak is really faster, but I do think it keeps your fingers on the home row more. At this point the main reason I prefer Dvorak is that it lets me have more modifier keys on the left side of the keyboard (without moving to the number row).
- k__ 9y agoI program with the German layout, found it pretty okay.
- dx034 9y agoI found it ok until I switched to UK layout. It takes a while to get used to the layout for programming but it does speed up programming a lot for languages that use brackets excessively. Others (e.g. Python) don't really make a difference.
- nether 9y agoI don't think layout matters for speed unless we're talking top 1% of typists. Go on YouTube. Tons of people typing 100+ wpm with two fingers.
- Majora320 9y agoI type 60-70 WPM with 2-4 fingers lol