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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:Vim by MrAnnoyanceToYou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My qualm about Dvorak has always been that I don't exactly know where the brackets and schtuff all go in Dvorak, so I would have a bit of a problem with that. I still look at my keyboard for squigglies and the top row of characters. My Bad. But if they change in Dvorak, how can I find them without labels on my keys? Yeah, yeah. Lazy lazy me, and all. But then, I didn't 'take' to touch typing for a very, very long time.

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