It’s good for what it’s good for: avoiding carpal tunnel.
Are you consistently using a keyboard for 4+ hours a day? I mean typing, not just mouse & the occasional tap. Then Dvorak is vastly superior to qwerty. If not, not really worth it.
It was a huge pain for 2+ months for me to rewire my muscle memory to use it, but it was worth it for me. 15 years of typing a lot almost every day, never had so much as a twinge.
It doesn’t help with speed. Typing speeds between qwerty and Dvorak are the same, once you factor in user experience and which one they’re more used to.
An anecdote is of course not evidence, so please take my single point of view with skepticism. As the number of hours spent typing increased, I started getting wrist and joint pain. Once I switched, that went away.
Okay I’ll bite: is Dvorak really that great?
It’s good for what it’s good for: avoiding carpal tunnel.
Are you consistently using a keyboard for 4+ hours a day? I mean typing, not just mouse & the occasional tap. Then Dvorak is vastly superior to qwerty. If not, not really worth it.
It was a huge pain for 2+ months for me to rewire my muscle memory to use it, but it was worth it for me. 15 years of typing a lot almost every day, never had so much as a twinge.
It doesn’t help with speed. Typing speeds between qwerty and Dvorak are the same, once you factor in user experience and which one they’re more used to.
If it helps you that’s great, but there’s no real evidence for it making any difference with RSI or carpal tunnel.
An anecdote is of course not evidence, so please take my single point of view with skepticism. As the number of hours spent typing increased, I started getting wrist and joint pain. Once I switched, that went away.