Going Cold Turkey on QWERTY

By Simon|Getting Things Done, Technology|Be the first to comment!

Recently I’ve been feeling the strain of too much typing – nothing too serious, but enough to make me look at how I use the keyboard.  In addition to ergo keyboards I’ve been checking out the DVORAK keyboard layout.  While I’m convinced that this is a superior way of typing, it’s like learning all over again.  I average around 60wpm/95% accuracy using the QWERTY layout.  My goal is to use DVORAK for 2 weeks (without replacing keys) to see how close I can get to my original speed.  Given that it’s taken me about 30 minutes to write this post, we’ll see…