| > the theory of ortho What theory of ortho? It's merely a rejection of stagger. Stagger represents our unwillingness to try new things even if the old thing makes no sense whatsoever. OK, attitude aside now: for me it's partly about the ability to find keys by feel. With stagger you can learn touch typing one row above the home row and one row below the home row, no problem. But when you start trying to learn touch typing for the number row the difficulty jumps up significantly, because the nonsensical stagger makes it difficult to feel your way up the column. So the benefits of ortho, according to me: - It's easier to touch type once you eliminate the stagger, especially when deviating more than one row. - Being better able to feel your way around helps with gaming, as does removing the stagger from WASD. - Being straightened out allows you to map a numpad over the keys, to be invoked with a function key. I tried this with stagger and it was awful. - I just dig the way it looks. It's like a lazy cartoon drawing of a keyboard. |