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

[Tim Roberts]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:30:43 -0700, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
>declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> 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.
>
>	Oh, there was an "inefficiency" in QWERTY -- but it only applies to
>fully manual typewriters, in which some of the more common letters were
>placed under the weakest fingers -- to slow down key strokes enough to
>reduce jamming multiple type blocks 

That's what I was referring to.  That's a very common belief, but it's
nonsense.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.