On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:48:13PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Rick Funderburg wrote: > >Tracy R Reed wrote: > >> I have always been annoyed by the fact that QWERTY was designed to > >>slow us down > > > >That is a myth (or at least there is no good evidence of it). > > Well, maybe. > > Qwerty was designed to alleviate typebar jams, so it did slow some > typists down. However, I seem to recall that it alternates hands fairly > well which *also* contributes to fewer jams and makes typing speed *faster*. > > Nobody has shown that dvorak is a clear winner, either.
False. The superiority of the dvorak layout over the sholes has been demonstated numerous times. > See, The Fable of the Keys: > http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html Note that it tends to refer to the Navy study, that no one can find. No original research. No study of letter patterns within words. No study of human physiology. All of these went into the dvorak layout. Simpy, Dvorak is superior. Modern genetic algorithms show that. http://www.visi.com/~pmk/evolved.html -john who is using sholes. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
