Re: Dvorak keys vs. QWERT

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From: Michael D Mellinger
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 1990 14:43

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In article <1990Sep7.180323.8467@intek01.uucp> mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) writes:


   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.

A claim was also made that fewer typso are made on Dvorak keyboards.
Can anyone corroborate this?  Also, the original study was performed
on people using typewriters, not people using Emacs (GNU flavor).  Is
the keyboard still optimal when you are a frequent user of C-t?

-Mike

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