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Is DVORAK Gaining Traction Among Coders?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slow-news-day dept.

coderpath asks: "At a recent Seattle Ruby Brigade hack night someone asked how many people used the DVORAK keyboard layout. Out of 9 people, 7 used DVORAK and only 2 were using QWERTY. I personally made the switch last Christmas, after 25 years of typing with QWERTY. What do you use? Have you switched to DVORAK? Have you been wanting to make the switch? Has anyone else noticed an increase in adoption of DVORAK lately?"

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  1. Re:Only good for touch typing? by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No offense, but I've never met a hunt-and-peck typist that's any good at coding. I strongly advise you to learn to touch type, whether on QUERTY or DVORAK. Seriously: Learn to touch type. It only takes one day, and it'll be worth 10s of thousands of dollars if they sit you down at a keyboard for an interview.

    REAL programmers have to touch-type - we've worn the labels off the keycaps on too many keyboards ...

    What's funny is watching people who claim to be such "hotshots" and still don't know the keyboard shortcuts for selecting, cutting, and pasting, in ANY editor.