I read OP’s comment as indicating they wanted tech to move to alternative layouts from QWERTY, and the argument is always improved wpm.
I type slow as hell, I don’t have a dog in the fight.
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onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 months agoHow is it “inefficient”? There are many keyboard layouts out there for different languages. DVORAK also exists, which supposedly is better.
I’d argue that the mode of entry of inefficient, not the layout. There’s a lot of movement for a finger to reach a key. Much of that movement could be reduced. An example thereof is the CharaChorder
Spazsquatch@lemmy.studio 10 months ago
mrkite@programming.dev 10 months ago
I thought it was well known that the studies about Dvorak being superior were fabricated by Dvorak himself… but apparently that’s forgotten knowledge.
Here’s a magazine article about it: reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/