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The author was literally not the target audience. Unless you are already touch-typing, there won't be much of a benefit: * all keys are equally easy to reach w
by jlg23 8y ago
The author was literally not the target audience. Unless you are already touch-typing, there won't be much of a benefit:
* all keys are equally easy to reach when you hover your finger 10cm above the keyboard while searching for a key
* you are moving fingers, hands and arms much more and with much more variety than when touch-typing, the risk of repetitive strain injuries is therefore lower
* you are typing much, much slower. Switching to dvorak is like buying an expensive pair of hiking boots for your daily 1 minute walk to the kiosk.
Last but not least, I know much more people who use a dvorak-like layout (as do I) - they adapt it to their needs (e.g.: as a lisp programmer I don't care about curly or square brackets, when I have to hack on other languages, I adapt my layout to make required special characters more easily accessible)
- artsyca 8y agoI've been using Dvorak since 2003 or earlier when I read this post by Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame: https://ma.tt/2003/08/on-the-dvorak-keyboard-layout/ https://ma.tt/2003/08/on-the-dvorak-keyboard-layout/ It's a night and day difference. Watching everyone from my doctor to my colleagues twisting around their fingers to use QWERTY is painful and I'm seriously typing this without even glancing at the keyboard
- preommr 8y ago> I'm seriously typing this without even glancing at the keyboard I mean... that is what touch typing is and you can do it on a qwerty keyboard as well.
- sovietmudkipz 8y ago> as a lisp programmer I don't care about curly or square brackets, when I have to hack on other languages, I adapt my layout to make required special characters more easily accessible I find it fascinating that people change their keyboard layouts frequently. For me, there seems to be plenty of mental complexity to contend with that adding n > 1 keyboard interfaces would overload my ability to work efficiently. I’m also worried about having to set up something complex just to get to work. What are your thoughts? I’m just curious how you think about these issues
- stronglikedan 8y ago> I find it fascinating that people change their keyboard layouts frequently. Me too. I have trouble just switching between Mac layout and others.
- jlg23 8y agoIt's just a few keys that change. If you stick to one layout per task/language, muscle memory will take care of that.