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From: rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re^2: Dvorak keys vs. QWERT
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.205929.14225@bpdsun1.uucp>
Date: 8 Sep 90 20:59:29 GMT
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In article <1990Sep7.180323.8467@intek01.uucp> mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>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.

I can go from Sun type 4 to IBM extended PC without
screaming and cursing now.  Thanks whoever for putting the
squiggle in a more accessible place for unix but PLEASE don't do
me any more favors, ok Sun? :-)  I would appreciate a Dvorak type 4
though...

My pursuit of Dvorak has to do with Corpal-Tunnel syndrome.  It 
seems like I have to break up my typing into one hour segments
because of the excruciating pain in my wrists.  
Will the reduced wrist movements lengthen my productivity time
(perhaps help me delay surgery?)  This would more than make
up for the problem of having a different layout someone else's
machine.

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