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by brianiac (4158)

First, if you want to reduce your finger travel and extend your typing lifetime, stop using the QWERTY layout. It was specifically designed to be inefficient (so mechanical typewriters wouldn't jam). Switch to Dvorak; all the vowels are in your left home position, common consonants on the right--you can type whole sentences from the home position. I've been using Dvorak for about a year and a half, and wish I'd switched sooner. It's hard and time consuming to learn, get over it.

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- Dvorak (Score:1)
  
  by mary.poppins (3530) on 2005.05.06 12:24 (#40238) Homepage Journal
  
  I too use Dvorak. I think it helps when typing English text, but not so much when programming.
  
  My Dvorak pet peeve: "ls". I had to make aliases.
  
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