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Meet the DIY Dvorak keyboard. I'm feeling nostalgic this week, and I was surprised that we've never mentioned this simple, but useful hack. Heresy history lesson: the qwerty keyboard was created to slow down typing - because old typewriters jammed too easily. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient because the letters that are most often used are positioned closer to the fingers natural position. [Anders] swapped the keys on his Swedish thinkpad, and even customized the map a bit further to his own taste.

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Source: Will O'Brien