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I wouldn't recommend Colemak to programmers suffering from RSI. It favors the right hand way too much. For writing English this is fine, but when you have to ty
by pubby 7y ago
I wouldn't recommend Colemak to programmers suffering from RSI. It favors the right hand way too much. For writing English this is fine, but when you have to type programming symbols and use Vi keys it really does a number to your right hand.
Qwerty is inefficient as all get-out, but it's more balanced for programming with how the most used letters are on the left hand.
- melling 7y agoThat’s not what this article claims: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?colemak#colemak_detailed_statistics http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?colemak#colemak_detailed_stat... “Colemak is more balanced in hand use, with a 6% preference for the right hand (Dvorak has 14% for the right and QWERTY 15% for the left).“
- ivanhoe 7y agoIf I understand correctly these stats will depend on the text you type, so each natural/programming language (especially programming language) will have a different stats, right? Think typing python vs typing perl for instance...