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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1996865" data-attributes="member: 5100">For reference, I recomend this <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=dvorak+keyboard+faster+myth" target="_blank">Google search</a>. There is no evidence that I've found that indicates QWERTY as superior to Dvorak.  Most of the naysayers seem to pull from the same <a href="http://reason.com/9606/Fe.QWERTY.shtml" target="_blank">article</a> that is primarily concerned with economics, the Microsoft anti-trust case, and tearing apart some Naval research (wasn't there just a thread around here that postulated people are more likely to identify themselves by opposition than support?).  Aside from some pretty blatant circular arguments and strawmen, <a href="http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak/" target="_blank">this article </a>supporting Dvorak has a section debunking the above.  Indeed.  I really don't care what keyboard anyone else uses -- mine has all the support I need built into my typing platform of choice.  What really matters is what works for you. For me, that's Dvorak.  I can't speak empirically, because I've not done any studies on the matter -- and don't really care to do so.  Personally, though, I am quite certain that I'm considerably faster on Dvorak than I ever was on QWERTY and it has eased the strain on my wrists (boo, carpal tunnel). Because of that, I think it's great when people want to take the time to give Dvorak a try.  I also have to raise an eyebrow when people (like the authors of the article) appear to pull out some real venom against Dvorak.  Where does that come from?</blockquote>

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