thoughts on wrist strain
Dec. 22nd, 2005 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashHmmm. I'm finding that my wrists ache more from typing than they normally do. I suspect it's from trying to hold them so damned rigidly in one cramped place: the hands are at an angle to the forearm. Touch-typing may be faster than my usual method of hands floating across the keys, but it causes pain. I may abandon this Dvorak experiment; this layout does feel like it'd be faster for a touch-typist once learnt, but touch-typing is simply painful in and of itself! "Good" typing posture just moves the strain around - are my arms really meant to be like this for so long? No.
Alternately, I may stick with the Dvorak layout a bit longer, and start to let my hands float across the keyboard more, mostly using the first and second fingers for less time with the wrists so damn bent!
Alternately, I may stick with the Dvorak layout a bit longer, and start to let my hands float across the keyboard more, mostly using the first and second fingers for less time with the wrists so damn bent!