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Both the article and most of the comments here don't seem to touch the elephant in the room: There's no reliable scientific evidence for Dvorak or any other key
by hannob 8y ago
Both the article and most of the comments here don't seem to touch the elephant in the room: There's no reliable scientific evidence for Dvorak or any other keyboard being any better.
Here's an article covering the flimsy evidence:
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/1999/04/01/the-qwerty-myth https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/1999/04/01/t...
Is there a place for better keyboard layouts? Maybe. Show me properly controlled studies and I'll take it seriously.
- mherrmann 8y agoSee for instance http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?dvorak http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?dvorak .
- JdeBP 8y agoActually, the elephant in the room is that rearranging the keyboard map whilst still retaining the ISO 9995 parallelogram physical positioning is to entirely miss a major factor. (-:
- limeblack 8y agoYes and no. Turkish F keyboard is essentially a highly used Dvorak used equivalent and coincidentally Turkey often wins some of the most typing competions. This is not scientific evidence so to speak but our best bet to understand this is to analyze Turkish F keyboard.