[ahnberg]

I believe the pain comes from having a "proper" qwerty finger setting, where you have 8 of your fingers on asdf and hjkl. Then typing some combinations is awkward.

I never got the hang of that style but rather evolved into some fluent version where my fingers float around and sometimes I will use different fingers to type the same latters based on what I previously typed.

This has allowed me to end up at a top speed of around 160wpm using normal qwerty keyboard layouts.

I always felt that switching to a totally new layout crippled me when moving around between customer servers, mobile devices and so forth.

But I totally get that others have had different experiences and I appreciate that there are alternatives out there. I love choice.

Very interesting read!