Learning Dvorak was one of the coolest most mind-fuck things I ever did. It broke me when I learned it, and it took a long time to build my typing speed back up in both it and QWERTY.
Fast forward to today, and having been largely using QWERTY for the last decade. I'm trying out a dactyl keyboard to ease some hand pain, and my brain keeps slipping into Dvorak because the keyboard just feels different.
@siriusfox i decided not to try different keyboard layouts, because i spend quite a lot of my time having to use other people’s keyboards and computers and having the wrong muscle memory would probably drive me mad quite quickly.
Maybe it’s worth experimenting with for different keyboard shapes, though. I don’t have problems with using my left hand to operate a mouse or gear lever, perhaps in part because there’s a clear context shift.
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