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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-06-14, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> And did any of the studies take into account the fact that a lot of
>> computer users - in all but the purest data entry tasks - will use a
>> mouse as well as a keyboard?
>
> What I think's really stupid is designing keyboards with two
> big blocks of keys between the alphabetic keys and the mouse.
> Back when standard-grade keyboards didn't usually have a
> built-in numeric keypad, it was much easier to move one's
> right hand back and forth between the keyboard and mouse.

That's why I always buy keyboards without numeric keypads. :)

Another good solution is to put the mouse on the left-hand side.

-- 
Grant