wedrifid comments on Spend Money on Ergonomics - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Kevin 23 December 2011 06:40AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 23 December 2011 11:19:02AM 3 points [-]

Anyone have an estimate or range on how long it takes to switch from QWERTY to DVORAK?

Don't know. But note that Colemak is better than Dvorak for all the same reasons Dvorak is better than Qwerty. If you are going to optimise you may as well do it properly!

Comment author: shurane 23 December 2011 03:15:22PM 2 points [-]

Also note that there are keyboard layout programs like carpalx. You could try for the Q*MLW* layout, which is supposedly quite a bit faster than Dvorak and Colemak. You can look at statistics and examples on the website, too. It's rather fascinating.

Comment author: Mass_Driver 23 December 2011 08:50:33PM 0 points [-]

Thanks, learning Colemak actually looks like it would offer a fantastic return on investment of time. I'll try it over the holidays.