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Originally Posted by rcentros
My father swears by Dvorak, he's been using it for 25 to 30 years. He used to constantly try to get me to use it but my fingers were hard wired for QWERTY. I can see the advantage, the keys you use the most are under your fingers in the "home" row. If QWERTY wasn't designed to keep keys from "tangling" then I'm not quite sure why it was designed the way it was.
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It was definitely designed to encourage use of fingers on hands alternately (precisely to keep the hammers from colliding): but this is not to its detriment because this sort of alternation is desirable for speed. (Many other properties of QWERTY are, of course, to its detriment. Not that what we use nowadays is much like the original QWERTY -- I mean it's relatively recent that the keyboard gained unimportant things like the digits 0 and 1, but if you tell that to people under the age of 70 now who aren't technology archaeologist enthusiasts they look at you like you've gone mad.)