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For Dvorak, aren’t the frequently used keys (for English) under the fingers on the home row? You can measure travel distance of the fingers, for example, on a
by melling 9y ago
For Dvorak, aren’t the frequently used keys (for English) under the fingers on the home row? You can measure travel distance of the fingers, for example, on a novel, etc
http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/main http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/main
Xah Lee has a heat map:
http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_dvorak_layout.html http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_dvorak_layout.html
- chillacy 9y agoI think the claim is that whatever limits typing speed is not key travel distance, but rather maybe coordination in your brain or some other factor. Anecdotally I would get tired typing qwerty way faster than I do typing dvorak, though some of this is just the fact that my form is much better in dvorak.
- sooheon 9y agoYeah hard to account for that confounding factor. The alt layout is most people's second, learned much more deliberately.
- s_kilk 9y agoThe heat map is interesting in that it shows clearly the reason I moved from Dvorak to Colemak after 5 years of the former: Dvorak has a distinct bias toward the right hand, and particularly the right pinky.