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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!utgpu!georgen
- From: georgen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (G. Ng)
- Subject: Re: Really better? (Re: DVORAK keyboard?)
- Message-ID: <C0JvLC.E6q@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: UTCS Public Access
- References: <1993Jan7.160953.3516@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <1ij4v1INNod9@uwm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:31:59 GMT
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- In article <1ij4v1INNod9@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
- >From article <1993Jan7.160953.3516@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, by jsue@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey L. Sue):
- >> I'm really curious about the contention that the DVORAK keyboard is
- >> really faster. I thought I read somewhere recently that a study was
- >>...
- >I recall reading an article on this subject many years ago. Can't recall
- >just where -- it _might_ have been Scientific American. Anyway, I recall
- >that the conclusion was that Dvorak layout resulted in _faster_ typing
- >...
-
- In addition, I remember glancing at the Guinness book of records a while back
- where it mentioned that the fastest typist (200+ wpm) was on a Dvorak
- keyboard of a computer (probably a PC or an Apple).
-