Well, what would it take to make it great for programmers? My primary concern at the moment is the excess whitespace it often adds after every keypress. Exact typing is very important to me when I am writing code. Are there other issues you're concerned about?
I think that ultimately everyone spends more time thinking than literally anything else in the world, including qwerty typing, so "I spend more time thinking" doesn't seem like a meaningful observation to make. Even a 1% improvement in typing rate applied globally, across all forms of work that might even trivially involve typing, can save millions of hours per year of labor.
Wait, let's check. Assume 500 million qwerty typists. Assume an average of 10 minutes per day spent typing every day for a year by everyone. So a 1% improvement would be 34,700 years of labor saved over a single year? Pretty cool.
Edit: yeah so it occurs to me that I shouldn't estimate 500 million qwerty users. Hmm. Maybe it would be better to estimate based on "75% of cellphone users worldwide send text messages" multiplied by maybe uh 1.5 billion users. So anyway, at least 1 billion typists (although not qwerty-specifically, cellphone typing is dramatically slower, so is safe to use here).
Well, what would it take to make it great for programmers? My primary concern at the moment is the excess whitespace it often adds after every keypress. Exact typing is very important to me when I am writing code. Are there other issues you're concerned about?
I think that ultimately everyone spends more time thinking than literally anything else in the world, including qwerty typing, so "I spend more time thinking" doesn't seem like a meaningful observation to make. Even a 1% improvement in typing rate applied globally, across all forms of work that might even trivially involve typing, can save millions of hours per year of labor.
Wait, let's check. Assume 500 million qwerty typists. Assume an average of 10 minutes per day spent typing every day for a year by everyone. So a 1% improvement would be 34,700 years of labor saved over a single year? Pretty cool.
Edit: yeah so it occurs to me that I shouldn't estimate 500 million qwerty users. Hmm. Maybe it would be better to estimate based on "75% of cellphone users worldwide send text messages" multiplied by maybe uh 1.5 billion users. So anyway, at least 1 billion typists (although not qwerty-specifically, cellphone typing is dramatically slower, so is safe to use here).