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by 1MachineElf 1654 days ago
I've been using it since 2016 and I love it. I guess you could say I'm deep in the rabbit hole of Dvorak.

I can switch between Dvorak and QWERTY in just seconds.

I can spot when someone else is a Dvorak typist based on their typos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407601

I have a custom Dvorak layout for any ortholinear keyboard with at least 36 keys: https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/_sb4dv/keyb...

Sometimes I go on odd rants about how common shortcuts can be easier to use in Dvorak in combination with a left-handed mouse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26796214

So how did you go about learning it? My pathway was GNU Typist: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gtypist/gtypist.h...

What made you want to learn it? For me, the Dymaxion map in this XKCD cartoon appealed to me because I liked XML and shoes with toes (like Vibrams): https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/977:_Map_Projecti...