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A Dvorak Diversion

November 8th, 2007

I’ve been using computers ever since I was a little kid. But it wasn’t until about a decade ago that I learned to “touch-type”, or type without looking at the keys; I’ve probably “point and pecked” longer than most chickens. Learning to touch-type was no mean feat, but it only took me a month or so of practice to churn out a brisk 70 words per minute. Not too shabby.

With an increase in typing skill, however, came an increase in typing. When I was a senior in college (years after I’d learned to touch-type) the flurry …