Nearly 3 years ago, I switched to a DVORAK keyboard from the lousy QWERTY system that comes standard with 99% of the world’s keyboards. I’m much faster and more accurate with this system, and have much less fatigue typing, compared to when I was using QWERTY. Try it out sometime! You may love it too! Windows, Mac and Linux systems all support this keyboard layout. Just change a few settings and swap your keyboard buttons (that was easier for me than finding an actual DVORAK keyboard out here!), and you’re on!
It’s scientifically designed to make typing easier and less of a strain, since it wasn’t designed to prevent frequently-used letter keys jamming up the old mechanical typewriters. It keeps all the frequently-used keys right in the middle row and gives equal weight to both hands while typing, unlike Qwerty keyboards.
It sucks when the de facto standard is based on a flawed design! Did you hear the one about Qwerty being so arranged so as to allow typewriter salesmen in the early 20th century type the word “typewriter” using keys arranged all on the same row on the keyboard, while demonstrating their product?
Here are a few links, including one to an excellent comic ( pdf) that explains the difference between the keyboard systems:
http://dvzine.org/zine/pdf.html
http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/index.html
http://discovermagazine.com/1997/apr/thecurseofqwerty1099/
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) and even less have heard of it, surely!
