• @[email protected]
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    -410 months ago

    It’s inefficient, there are many alternate layouts that are “better”. I feel like AI is going to give us auto-fill that makes the keyboard efficiency less important though.

    • @onlinepersonaOP
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      410 months ago

      How is it “inefficient”? There are many keyboard layouts out there for different languages. DVORAK also exists, which supposedly is better.

      I’d argue that the mode of entry of inefficient, not the layout. There’s a lot of movement for a finger to reach a key. Much of that movement could be reduced. An example thereof is the CharaChorder

      • @mrkite
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        210 months ago

        I thought it was well known that the studies about Dvorak being superior were fabricated by Dvorak himself… but apparently that’s forgotten knowledge.

        Here’s a magazine article about it: https://reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        I read OP’s comment as indicating they wanted tech to move to alternative layouts from QWERTY, and the argument is always improved wpm.

        I type slow as hell, I don’t have a dog in the fight.