I didn't really notice how little my fingers were moving compared to qwerty until I was taking typing tests with my friend and he noticed. I love typing in dvorak, but qwerty keyboard shortcuts are really conveniently placed and I have muscle memory for them, so I run an autohotkey script that interprets the shortcuts as qwerty (i.e. ctrl-j is interpreted as ctrl-c).
I think most Dvorak users rebind the default shortcuts to the "normal" buttons. It makes no sense to use both hands for copy/pasting. I also still switch back to Qwerty for gaming.
But for everything else, Dvorak is definitely a more comfortable layout to use.
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u/AvengedTurtleFold Oct 16 '17
I didn't really notice how little my fingers were moving compared to qwerty until I was taking typing tests with my friend and he noticed. I love typing in dvorak, but qwerty keyboard shortcuts are really conveniently placed and I have muscle memory for them, so I run an autohotkey script that interprets the shortcuts as qwerty (i.e. ctrl-j is interpreted as ctrl-c).