For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.

Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Join us Dvorak weirdos! Your wrists and typing speed may or may not thank you. We have anecdotal evidence!

    Fr tho, my wrists stopped hurting when I type when I joined the cult of dvorak

    If you want to go off the deep end you can even try the original variant where the number bar is changed too

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      4 hours ago

      Colemak supremacy!

      Really though if you haven’t started with Dvorak why not go for Colemak?

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        Dvorak is a more elegant and memable solution. Imagine, all your vowels in a row as you snicker to decade old xkcd comics about your keyboard