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4 points by mfincham ↗ HN
Can anyone recommend a resource for people with decades of typing experience looking to reform how they type? There are a lot of "learn to type" resources but they tend to focus on "beginner touch typing" skills.

Specifically I'm keen to see if I can adopt a more ergonomic typing method and make use of more digits.

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techdog
If you want to get radical about it, you can reconfigure your keyboard to a known-efficient configuration such as the Dvorak layout. As you probably know, the QWERTY layout was specifically designed to be un-ergonomic and inefficient (so as to keep typists from jamming the mechanical keys of early typewriters). Dvorak and other layouts are known to be conducive to rapid typing, but your skills would not be transferable across multiple machines.

So it's really a question, first, of whether you intend to stay with QWERTY. If so, I recommend http://www.keybr.com

mfincham
Is Dvorak really, scientifically better?
yzzxy
> As you probably know, the QWERTY layout was specifically designed to be un-ergonomic and inefficient (so as to keep typists from jamming the mechanical keys of early typewriters)

This is false. Please stop repeating it. Dvorak is also not well-proven to be better.

http://www.economist.com/node/196071

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