Re^2: Some sites cause Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. Surely not PerlMonks?

... but Carpal Tunnel is not to be taken lightly

Jamie Zawinski's experience with typing injury is a great read on what can go wrong and some things one can do to combat the problem.

If you don't mind my asking, quester (and any other Dvorak users), I have a question unrelated to typing injuries: do you actually think you type faster (not "in a healthier manner") using a Dvorak layout than you did when you (presumably) used a QWERTY layout? I ask because there's a lot of both pro- and anti-Dvorak propoganada and I can't make up my mind. (Also, when coding, did you re-learn new positions for the non-alphanumeric characters, such as braces, or use the "usual" ones?)

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Re^3: Some sites cause Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. Surely not PerlMonks? by quester (Vicar) on Oct 15, 2006 at 05:14 UTC
Hmm... actually I never measured my typing speed before and after. I think it's roughly the same for me, but then I never typed very fast anyway. I would guess that that's true of most people who type more code than text. As far as I can see, trying to use the existing positions for nonalphanumerics is going to get awfully involved, because the Qwerty keys assigned to some of those characters, ",<.>/?;:" in particular, are used for letters in Dvorak, "wWvVzZsS". If you try to avoid moving the "[" key you will need to move "/' elsewhere...	[reply]
Re^4: Some sites cause Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. Surely not PerlMonks? by ammon (Sexton) on Oct 16, 2006 at 18:02 UTC
Agreed. The claims to improve your typing speed seem to be rubbish. I might have seen a slight increase, but I have my doubts. Some things are faster, some things are slower. I made the switch due to boredom, not RSI. I did have a small amount of wrist pain every now and then, which hasn't gone away. I'm sure it's due to crummy typing posture more than the actual typing.	[reply]