Determined to Do Dvorak? Remap Details Discussed

"The Dvorak Keyboard"
jcb, MIT

I don't doubt that the Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than the "Qwerty" arrangement that's standard now - at least with American-English keyboards.

On the other hand, I wonder about Dvorak's claim, repeated in this article: "According to Dvorak, prior to World War II, researchers had found that after three years of typing instruction, the average typing student's speed was 47 net words per minute (NWPM)."

I was typing around 50 NWPM after a few weeks in a business school class, back in the sixties. Three years? A couple weeks? That's a huge discrepancy: and I'm not exactly a speed typist now, three-plus decades later.

Now You, Too, Can Do Dvorak!

For all you geek wannabes, the author tells how to re-map a keyboard in the Dvorak order, for Windows, Mac, and UNIX.

For actual geeks, I suppose remapping is something to be done while sleeping.