Lars at the OSL

Last Fall, I decided to learn the dvorak keyboard layout.  I didn’t take it very seriously and didn’t do so well.  After yet another bout of wrist and shoulder pain, I splurged and bought one of those expensive Kenesis “two scoops” keyboards with the switchable qwerty/dvorak layouts.  It’s been a month and I’m still really rotten at dvorak.  I use dvorak as the default, and only switch to qwerty when I’m desperate to get something done.

The toughest part are the letters: o, e, i, d, c, r.  I’m always swapping those in pairs: o for e, i for d and c for r.  I run exercises to get them into muscle memory, but they just won’t stick.

This posting has taken an inordinate amount of time to write.