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Thank you for your great analogy. There _is_ significant improvement between QWERTY and Dvorak, and I covered them in my question (just did not bother with links, but I can bother if the question will be popular). This difference is much deeper than difference between RHD and LHD, because as for cars there is better to have one standard for every country than two standarts, no matter what standard it is. And as for k…
Average QWERTY typing speed is roughly 50WPM. How much faster is Dvorak? 10%? 50%? 100%? Let's say that it takes a couple of years of retraining from QWERTY to Dvorak until a typical user can reach a 10% improvement. How much typing will they have to do in order to regain that lost time? Typing, nowadays, isn't the bottleneck. If we still had pools of typists clattering away to reproduce our words then - yes - a more…
Re: Ask HN: What needs to be happen to make Dvorak more popular than QWERTY?
#11i would think that dvorak wins. I am getting better at it!