From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri May 28 1999 - 09:27:56 MDT
Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> Also I think there was a more in-depth article on the Economist
> site a while back discussing how basically Dvorak faked up his
> tests. Did you measure your typing speed before switching so
> you can tell if you ever get faster?
Yes, I'm aware that Dvorak faked the tests. Dvorak is still a better
keyboard. Type in Dvorak and you rapidly realize that typing has a
rhythm, a rhythm that QWERTY was specifically designed to break up.
I didn't think to measure my speed, I'm afraid.
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