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From: mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins)
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Subject: Re^2: Dvorak keys vs. QWERT
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Date: 7 Sep 90 18:03:23 GMT
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john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:

>Disclaimer: I don't know if my experience is typical.  I had
>18 years experience touch-typing on QWERTY when I retrained
>myself on the DSK, and that was ten years ago.  I seldom do
>more than an hour or two of typing a day.  My QWERTY speed
>never got much beyond 40 wpm, but I can generally do over 70
>wpm on the DSK.

I haven't tried Dvorak, but Donald Norman ("The Psychology of Everyday
Things") claims that it's quite well documented that a conversion from
QWERTY to Dvorak will increase speed by no more than 10% for the average
user.  So it's probably not worth doing for the average QWERTY-comfortable
touch-typist.

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