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From: pdwalker@bcarh471.bnr.ca (Paul D Walker)
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Subject: Re: Re^2: Dvorak keys vs. QWERT
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Date: 11 Sep 90 23:20:16 GMT
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>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.
>
>Mark McWiggins			Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek)
>+1 206 455 9935			DISCLAIMER:  I could be wrong ...
>1400 112th Ave SE #202		Bellevue WA  98004
>mark@intek.com    		Ask me about C++!

I switched one of my computers over to DVORAK a year ago and painfully 
relearned how to type.

The one thing that I discovered is that my fingers stopped hurting from 
a long day of typing.  I have never formally learned how to type, and just 
by practice, I am up to a speed of 50 wpm in a good stretch on QWERTY, but
at the end of the day, I feel as if I have arthritus.

The benefit I get is the release from this pain and an improved typing speed.

I will continue to use DVORAK.

Paul.

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