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- From: carlj@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com (Carl Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Really better? (Re: DVORAK keyboard?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.182223.585@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1993Jan7.160953.3516@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:22:23 GMT
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- jsue@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey L. Sue) writes:
- : I'm really curious about the contention that the DVORAK keyboard is
- : really faster. I thought I read somewhere recently that a study was
- : done that brought this idea into question, if not completely dispelling
- : it. I wish I could remember where I read this, but it seems like it was
- : just a smallish article (probably just filler) - which would be difficult
- : to track down.
- :
- : Does anyone else out there remember reading this?
-
- I remember an article that concluded the advantage of dvorak keyboards
- was greatly overstated. Some studies have stated that dvorak has a 2-3
- times advantage based on finger movement. This article mentioned that
- they all neglected to figure the motion of the finger pressing the key,
- which is the same in either case. I believe that they concluded that
- dvorak had about a 15% advantage still; not enough for a touch typist to
- change over.
-
- --
-
- Carl Johnson carlj@cv.hp.com
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