On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:21, Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 Giu, 06:30, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: >> Studies have shown that even a >> strictly alphabetical layout works perfectly well, once the typist is >> acclimated. > > Once the user is acclimated to move her hands much more (about 40% > more for Qwerty versus Dvorak), that is. >
And disproportionate usage of fingers. On QWERTY the weakest fingers (pinkies) do almost 1/4 of the keypresses when modifier keys, enter, tab, and backspace are taken into account. I'm developing a QWERTY-based layout that moves the load off the pinkies and onto the index fingers: http://dotancohen.com/eng/noah_ergonomic_keyboard_layout.html There is a Colemak version in the works as well. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
