Dvorak relies on the right hand a lot more, and I was in the strange position of having my right hand get tired pretty quickly for the first couple of weeks.
I get this specifically with my right ring and pinky fingers; I can feel a physical strain any time I go from right pinky finger to my right ring finger (especially on different rows). Everywhere else is fine.
I think it has something to do with letter combinations for ‘n’, ‘s’, ‘r’, and ‘l’ and their frequencies in the English language.
I get this specifically with my right ring and pinky fingers; I can feel a physical strain any time I go from right pinky finger to my right ring finger (especially on different rows). Everywhere else is fine.
I think it has something to do with letter combinations for ‘n’, ‘s’, ‘r’, and ‘l’ and their frequencies in the English language.
Is your experience similar?
Same experience, after using Programmer-Dvorak for the last four years. I now have significant strain in my right-pinky.
However, on qwerty I had major strain in the left hand, so I guess it’s still a win.
I’d be open to hearing about a programmer-oriented layout that was more balanced, avoiding strain in any particular finger.
I tend to simply move/keep my entire right hand a bit more right-ward, thereby using my ring finger instead of my pinky most of the time.