Re:The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard
by jmhain on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:45PM
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Everyone who has actually made the switch, including myself, knows that is complete bullshit. I may be an extreme case, but my typing speed went from 55 wpm to 140 within a year, and with dramatically reduced pain after long programming sprees.
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Strong words will convince nobody!
I've never cared when people tell me that Dvorak is nonsense, or a lie, or whatever. I know it's hard for people, fighting to keep their QWERTY against this enormous onslaught of Dvorak proponents, so I just let them vent. It doesn't actually usually take long.
In fact, I don't even bother putting up a defence any more. Not my fingers, after all...
Yeah, I'm getting to that point as well. It's just disappointing to see posts like this, because many people here would undoubtedly benefit greatly from a switch. And it's not some scheme to replace QWERTY with Dvorak globally, as they probably think it is, because I know that will never happen. I just don't want those curious hackers, as I was myself six years ago, to be discouraged from giving it a shot.