Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
by Izkata on Saturday May 09, 2020 @12:19AM
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> 5 minutes typing at full speed on QWERTY and my wrists start to hurt. (I really don't know how people do it.)
Wrist-bending to maintain the home row, I suspect. I have a different, self-taught style that partially involves holding my hands above the keyboard and using muscles all along my arms to move my hands without bending my wrists much - never had any problems.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
by cheerlessbog on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:26AM
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In my case switching to a keyboard with each hand at an angle (Microsoft Natural Keyboard) changed my life as the pain went away like a switch.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
by ken on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:00AM
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It sounds like you're describing standard typing posture. Is your wrist position different than that somehow?
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
by hydroxonium on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:21AM
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Same here. Dvorak is so much more ergonomic than QWERTY.
Wrist discomfort with QWERTY completely disappeared upon switching to Dvorak.
It makes a massive difference in comfort. 5 minutes typing at full speed on QWERTY and my wrists start to hurt. (I really don't know how people do it.) On Dvorak, I can type all day at full speed with no pain at all. Surprisingly, the keyboard hardware itself doesn't seem to matter.
(Details: I mostly use a Mac, with caps lock mapped to control, NSRepeatCountBinding set to ^u, and -- obviously? -- I rarely touch the arrow keys.)