Keyboard Layout: Dvorak vs Colemak: is it Worthwhile to Improve the Dvorak Layout?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:21, Elena <egarrulo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 Giu, 06:30, Tim Roberts <t... at probo.com> wrote:
>> Studies have shown that even a
>> strictly alphabetical layout works perfectly well, once the typist is
>> acclimated.
>
> Once the user is acclimated to move her hands much  more (about 40%
> more for Qwerty versus Dvorak), that is.
>

And disproportionate usage of fingers. On QWERTY the weakest fingers
(pinkies) do almost 1/4 of the keypresses when modifier keys, enter,
tab, and backspace are taken into account.

I'm developing a QWERTY-based layout that moves the load off the
pinkies and onto the index fingers:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/noah_ergonomic_keyboard_layout.html

There is a Colemak version in the works as well.

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