Tamas Rudnai wrote:

> Just for my curiosity: What is the speed increase using a dvorak
> layout over the standard qwerty one? I suppose you only can see the
> difference if you type by 10 fingers, right?

The standard Dvorak layout is an attempt to optimize the keyboard for
two standard hands with five fingers each :), but there are also
left-hand-only and right-hand-only Dvorak layouts.=20

I didn't touch-type when I used QWERTY and only started to touch-type
with Dvorak, so I can't tell you anything about the speed difference
between the two. Accounts from people who have used both vary wildly,
but are probably mostly subjective. The traveled distance seems to be
much shorter with Dvorak or similar approaches (this is a mostly
objective measurement), which probably means that either the speed is
greater or the strain (on the joints) is lower (subjective conclusion
:).

Gerhard
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