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Re:Resolutions for programmers (2012) by pc86 on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @09:58AM (#10812261)
I'd be interested in knowing what resource(s) you used to learn Dvorak, and how easy it is for you to switch back and forth (if you do it often/daily).
Re:Resolutions for programmers (2012) by metasean on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @10:22AM (#10812370)
I'm not a dual-keyboarder, so I can't address that question.

When I first got a computer, in college, my father recommended I learn Dvorak instead of Qwerty for ergonomic reasons.

My keyboard was one of the typical 80's/90's beige color, so I took a black sharpie and wrote the Dvorak equivalent on each key. When I was typing, I focused on trying to remember which finger had to move where for each character. If I couldn't remember it for more than a second or two, then I could look at the keyboard.

It only took a couple of weeks to get the basics down, and it was several weeks after that that a friend pointed out I had worn off the sharpie for my most frequently used keys (I hadn't even noticed) and I was typing at a speed comparable to all the Qwerty keyboarders in the dorm.