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Comment by eta_carinae | Hacker News Reader

It's depressing that only one in five of these keyboards is ergonomic. If you're a developer today and you are planning on typing on a keyboard for at least the next ten years, picking any other keyboard than an ergonomic one is a guaranteed path toward painful and permanent pains in your wrists and forearms.

Switch to an ergonomic keyboard today, you'll be glad you did.

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They're amazing. I have a normal keyboard at home (gaming..) but I make sure to have one at work. It takes about a week of feeling very awkward but after that it all clicks.

I've been typing on keyboards for the past 20 years, no pains at all. I credit it to Dvorak, myself.

Some people seem to be immune to it, you might be one of the lucky few.

Make no mistake, though: Dvorak is an aggravating factor in carpal tunnel syndrome. The faster you type by moving your fingers only and not your hands, the more likely you are to start feeling the onset of CTS.

Ironically, the best way to make sure you won't suffer from CTS is by typing with just two fingers.

All the anecdotes I've read on Dvorak switchers indicate relief from CTS compared with Qwerty. For the same speed of typing, Dvorak users move their fingers less than Qwerty users.

It would be nice to have some hard data.

learning a new layout makes you pay close attention to the movements. I predict that switching from dvorak to querty will show the effect, too.

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