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

[Tim Roberts]

Xah Lee <xahlee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>(a lil weekend distraction from comp lang!)
>
>in recent years, there came this Colemak layout. The guy who created
>it, Colemak, has a site, and aggressively market his layout. It's in
>linuxes distro by default, and has become somewhat popular.
>...
>If your typing doesn't come anywhere close to a data-entry clerk, then
>any layout “more efficient” than Dvorak is practically meaningless.

More than that, any layout "more efficient" than QWERTY is practically
meaningless.  The whole "intentional inefficiency" thing in the design of
the QWERTY layout is an urban legend.  Once your fingers have the mapping
memorized, the actual order is irrelevent.  Studies have shown that even a
strictly alphabetical layout works perfectly well, once the typist is
acclimated.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.