Use Dvorak avoid finger pain
In IT field, people type a lot. Typing gives lot of repetitive strain on fingers. Putting those wrist wraps may alleviate your pain for some days but the basic root cause remains untreated. There is a need to address this issue and at ITProductivityTools we found a solution for this. Especially if you are typing in English language.
ITProductivityTools has conducted lot of survey and found out that the majority pain in typing can be avoided by switiching to Dvorak keyboard. Just like QWERTY is a keyboard layout, DVorak is also a keyboard layout. Dvorak is a better version of the keyboard layout. It is better in many respect and switching to Dvorak keyboard style is very easy.
The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (pronounced /ˈdvɒræk/) is a keyboard layout patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, Dr. William Dealey. Over the years several slight variations were designed by the team led by Dvorak or by ANSI. These variations have been collectively or individually also called the Simplified Keyboard or American Simplified Keyboard but they all have come to be commonly known as the Dvorak keyboard or Dvorak layout. Dvorak proponents claim the Dvorak layout uses less finger motion, increases typing rate, and reduces errors compared to the de facto keyboard standard QWERTY.
it has become easier to access in the computer age, being included with all major operating systems (such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD) in addition to the standard QWERTY layout. Most major operating systems have the option of toggling to the Dvorak layout. It is also supported at the hardware level by some high-end ergonomic keyboards.
The Dvorak layout was designed to replace the QWERTY keyboard layout (the de facto standard keyboard layout, so named for the starting letters in the top row), in which keys are arranged to avoid mechanical jams on the first generation of economically successful typewriters. The original QWERTY keyboard suffers from many problems that Dr. Dvorak himself identified:
- Many common letter combinations require a finger to jump over the home row.
Many common letter combinations are typed with one hand while the other sits idle.
Most typing is done with the left hand, which for most people is the weaker hand.
Many common letter combinations are typed by adjacent fingers, which is slower than using other fingers.
About 30% of typing is done on the lower row, which is the slowest and most difficult row to reach.
About 52% of keyboard strokes are done in the top row, requiring the fingers to travel away from the home row most of time.
Dvorak studied letter frequencies and the physiology of people’s hands and created a layout to alleviate the problems he identified with the QWERTY layout. The layout he created adheres to these principles:
Letters should be typed by alternating between hands (which makes typing more rhythmic, increases speed, reduces error, and reduces fatigue).
For maximum speed and efficiency, the most common letters and digraphs should be the easiest to type. This means that they should be on the home row, which is where the fingers rest, and under the strongest fingers (Thus, about 70% of keyboard strokes on the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard are done on the home row).
The least common letters should be on the bottom row, which is the hardest row to reach.
The right hand should do more of the typing, because most people are right-handed.
Digraphs should not be typed with adjacent fingers.
Stroking should generally move from the edges of the board to the middle. An observation of this principle is that, for many people, when tapping fingers on a table, it is easier going from little finger to index than vice versa. This motion on a keyboard is called inboard stroke flow.
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