Ask HN: What is your experience switching away from QWERTY keyboard?

Re:Ask HN: What is your experience switching away from QWERT... by nhumrich on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:11AM (#13541254)

I switched to colemak a year ago. Best thing I've ever done. The first month was REALLY hard. But I got over the slump and now I'm very grateful I did it. Typing is so much more natural feeling now. All the stretching in qwerty is not good for you. I was starting to get signs of RSI before I made the switch. But now almost no pain at all. I switched to an ergodox at the same time, so I can't tell you if the keyboard or the layout made the difference, but I think they both are a factor.

The one thing that really helped me make the switch was changing the layout on my phone's keyboard as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your experience switching away from QWERT... by aliceyhg on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:18PM (#13542627)

I'm surprised that changing layout on your phone helped. In my experience so far on dvorak, I'm still used to typing on my qwerty phone. I think typing with thumbs uses a different muscle memory set from fingers on keyboard.

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