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The claim I'd make in favour of Dvorak is that it's much more comfortable than QWERTY, without an impactful drop in speed. (Though, after using Dvorak for long

The claim I'd make in favour of Dvorak is that it's much more comfortable than QWERTY, without an impactful drop in speed. (Though, after using Dvorak for long enough, it's about as fast as QWERTY for me). I have a video on YouTube where I type using the Dvorak layout. One of the comments said "wow, it looks like your hand is doing nothing, but you're typing 90 wpm". QWERTY is ubiquitous enough that I think all English-speaking computer users must know it; so I wouldn't recommend Dvorak instead-of QWERTY. (I'm typing on QWERTY now).

Aerroon 5y ago
>"wow, it looks like your hand is doing nothing, but you're typing 90 wpm". I think this isn't necessarily a good thing when it comes to RSI. Spreading out the load onto other muscles and having some minor downtime seems to help me the most. Eg on my mouse hand turning down sensitivity made things better, because it required me to make bigger sweeping motions with my arm rather than small motions with my hand.