That's about correct. It's strange that the geek-dom which is quick to point out all BS, from "bio-magnetic" bracelets to internet hoaxes and urban legends, re

That's about correct. It's strange that the geek-dom which is quick to point out all BS, from "bio-magnetic" bracelets to internet hoaxes and urban legends, repeats so often this Dvorak myth. Here's a well researched article on the matter. There have been several discussions on HN also: http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/1 http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/1 TL;DR; Dvorak fabricated the "research" to make a sell of his invention. The very basis that Qwerty was designed to slow down typists specifically is also BS -- it was designed to avoid typewriter hammer jams, by alternating common key pairs to different hammers (something else altogether). Even if Dvorak was correct at the time --he wasn't--, we as programmers, don't type much prose, which would make his metrics invalid and bound to be recalculated with all the symbols stuff we use all the time . [],{},(),,"",- etc. For example, a period is something that occurs once at the end of every sentence in prose. In common programming that would be the semicolon. I think much of the viral nature of the Dvorak myth is due to the feeling of superiority the guy that adopted Dvorak gets (plus investment). This makes him much less prone to discredit it.