This comment has been brought to you by me switching from Dvorak to Colemak.
I’m always amazed that people advocate Dvorak. If you are going to diverge from the herd and be a munchkin why do a half-assed job of it? Sure, if you already know Dvorak it isn’t worth switching but if you are switching from Qwerty anyway then Colemak (or at least Capewell) is better than Dvorak in all the ways that Dvorak is better than Qwerty.
If you keep looking down the utility gradient, it’s harder to escape local maxima because you’re facing backwards.
This comment has been brought to you by me switching from Dvorak to Colemak.
I’m always amazed that people advocate Dvorak. If you are going to diverge from the herd and be a munchkin why do a half-assed job of it? Sure, if you already know Dvorak it isn’t worth switching but if you are switching from Qwerty anyway then Colemak (or at least Capewell) is better than Dvorak in all the ways that Dvorak is better than Qwerty.
Dvorak is for hipsters, not optimisers.
Tim Tyler is the actual optimizer here.