This is something you might be interested in looking into for the book; why do almost all typing tutorials teach left hand as QAZ, WSX, EDC when the far more comfortable QAShift, WSZ, EDX columns are available?
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It seems like the first typing teacher thought "first column = first finger" and worked their way from left to right. And everyone else has followed suit. Tutorials really should start with index finger columns of RFC + UJM, and work outward in each direction.
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Replying to @pkamb
I know it wasn’t one teacher. It took over a decade for this to stabilize, and – like many things – it sort of happened in a very messy way.
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I think ultimately it wouldn’t matter much. For most typists, especially today, the difference might be negligible.
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(Most people sort of fake touch typing anyway, and they do it their own imperfect way.)
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And if you suffer from actual musculoskeletal problems, I found there are dozens of more important issues to deal with first.
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I think it’s probably the same issue as QWERTY itself – it’s “good enough” for most people, hence inertia.
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Maybe one major manufacturer will go ortholinear one day, but I’m not holding my breath. :·)
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It's weird because in my opinion the ortholinear layout is significantly *less* ergonomic because it seems to encourage parallel wrists. An ortho-split layout would be good, but is that any better than the wrist angles you would get with RFC/UJM on any normal keyboard?
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Yeah, I guess I thought of ortholinear split, so that doesn’t make sense – split keyboards won’t ever go mainstream.
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The funniest one was this. *You were so close.*pic.twitter.com/ra48MzjliK
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Replying to @mwichary
The funniest are tutorials like this, where you can *feel* the pain point as they're forced to kink their left wrist to adapt to the arbitrary rainbow keys. The comfortable angle is right there under your fingers!pic.twitter.com/A6QTcGxmid
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