It's based on some research not available when Dvorak was designed, but with similar goals plus ease of switching from and compatibility with Qwerty (ex: most punctuation and bottom row are unchanged). It took under two weeks to get to about 25wpm, which was about where it stopped feeling painfully slow for me.
Re:Programmers' Dvorak Keyboard
by litewulf on Sunday November 02, 2008 @01:48AM
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I picked colemak for this reason. (Which is made ironic because I use emacs and so it doesn't really matter because the keybinds are different anyway.)
Its worth checking it out. Hard to tell if a new layout is any better or worse.
It's based on some research not available when Dvorak was designed, but with similar goals plus ease of switching from and compatibility with Qwerty (ex: most punctuation and bottom row are unchanged). It took under two weeks to get to about 25wpm, which was about where it stopped feeling painfully slow for me.