Dvorak keyboard, morning day 2

[amuzulo]

So, now I know the home row and can touch most keys without too much thought.  In the long run, I know this will be much better on my hands and I will type faster, but in the meantime it is quite frustrating.  It is especially difficult to type German, because I have to concentrate on German at the same time.  At least with my customized layout, I

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[6opou]

When I first switched to Dvorak, I was afraid of my computer for a while. Now I can switch back and forth between Dvorak and Qwerty pretty easily. I certainly prefer Dvorak, though. I stopped having wrist pains when I switched.

[amuzulo]

Cool. :)

[nebslie]

Congratulations! Someday I would like to do the same.

[gehrehmee]

Keep it up! I try as much as possible to type dvorak everywhere I go, including my laptop keyboard (which I can't physically rearrange for dvorak), and while I can't say that it's made a big impact on my typing speed, the comfort of my wrists is well worth it.

[lecontact]

i looked up a picture and i'm interested, how does rearranging the keys help/prevent wrist pain?

[amuzulo]

I think this quote explains it pretty well:

Dvorak estimated that the fingers of an average typist in his day travelled between 12 and 20 miles on a qwerty keyboard; the same text on a Dvorak keyboard would require only about one mile of travel.

Taken from: http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Dvorak/

[lecontact]

interesting! i never even thought about that.

[amuzulo]

Just leave it to an übergeek to expose you to more strange ideas.... :)

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