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>It's an urban myth that Dvorak is any better than qwerty. I think you're wrong. The Carpal X keyboard layout optimizer consistently ranks Dvorak as better tha
by etplayer 9y ago
>It's an urban myth that Dvorak is any better than qwerty.
I think you're wrong. The Carpal X keyboard layout optimizer consistently ranks Dvorak as better than QWERTY for "effort" (which takes into account things like finger travel distance and how good we are at using certain fingers).
You can see the findings here: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?typing_effort http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?typing_effort
Their conclusion was to determine which layout is the best - their own layout, which I use, called QGMLWB was determined to be the one which requires the least typing effort. I'd recommend people try it.
- etplayer 9y agoA quote supporting the advantages of Dvorak: >First, Dvorak is very good at keeping fingers on home row - 71% of keystrokes land there (compare this with 34% for QWERTY). This alone is worth the price of admission. Dvorak bottom row usage is very low at 9% (15% for QWERTY). Dvorak favours the right hand by 14% (QWERTY favours left by 15%). Dvorak has more uniform finger usage and makes greater use of the pinky (18% vs QWERTY's 10%). http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?dvorak http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?dvorak