For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn't true.

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[–] 17 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Join us Dvorak weirdos! Your wrists and typing speed may or may not thank you. We have anecdotal evidence!

Fr tho, my wrists stopped hurting when I type when I joined the cult of dvorak

If you want to go off the deep end you can even try the original variant where the number bar is changed too

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