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QWERTY is just bad design -- it's not something you'd ever design today. You'd never put ";" right under your finger, and relegate "e" from the home row. I swi
by yboris 8y ago
QWERTY is just bad design -- it's not something you'd ever design today. You'd never put ";" right under your finger, and relegate "e" from the home row.
I switched to Dvorak in graduate school and it was super-worth it. It took less than 2 months to get comfortable (and I can still switch between the two layouts in 15-ish seconds of conscious attention).
Here's a nice way to think of it -- will you be alive for longer than 5 more years? If so, you should switch to Dvorak.
- anotherevan 8y agoQWERTY is not badly designed. It's design goals were to minimise the likelihood of the keys of manual typewriters from jamming when typing in English, thus maximising the typist's productivity. At worst, you can say QWERTY is antiquated. The conditions it was designed for no longer exist.