http://bill.thomlex.com/taxonomy/term/114/0 en http://bill.thomlex.com/node/196 <p> <img class="imgleft" src="http://www.shiar.org/happy/txts/dvorakey.jpg" alt="" /> Peter Klausler used evolutionary software techniques to devise the perfect computer keyboard layout, and came to the conclusion (so far) that he couldn&#39;t beat Dvorak.</p> <p>Once upon a time, I forced myself to switch to Dvorak, but the switch was painful. Initally, it slowed me down substantially for the few weeks while I was switching (I type around 80+ wpm on qwerty, so going back to square one is a dramatic impact). But the bigger problem was that once I learned it, it was difficult to type on other peoples keyboards. So, I switched back.</p> <p><a href="http://www.visi.com/~pmk/evolved.html">Link</a></p> http://bill.thomlex.com/node/196#comment Computer Keyboard Technology Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:33:00 -0500 bill 196 at http://bill.thomlex.com