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Learn Dvorak (or Neo2). Hear me out. This functions as a proxy for dexterity training and will positively impact your typing speed and accuracy on qwerty. Wh
by sshine 4y ago
Learn Dvorak (or Neo2).
Hear me out.
This functions as a proxy for dexterity training and will positively impact your typing speed and accuracy on qwerty.
When I was 20 I decided to learn Dvorak. My typing speed on qwerty prior to learning Dvorak was 80wpm. After about 2 months my Dvorak speed was 65wpm, so no negative impact on productivity. (I'm a programmer, so I don't need to type fast, I just need to not type slow.) After two years of Dvorak my typing speed was 80wpm. (I didn't measure exactly when I was on-par.) So I tested my qwerty typing speed after not having used qwerty for two years, and it was a staggering 100wpm!
Take-away: I had never learned to type efficiently with qwerty. Getting good dexterity boosted my overall typing speed.
I am not a fan of Dvorak.
I made more typos with it because my hands ended up with vowel/consonant race conditions.
So if I were to repeat this experiment today, I'd learn Neo2:
https://www.neo-layout.org/ https://www.neo-layout.org/
They apply the same theory, but make a richer layout.