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Comment by snozolli

14 hours ago

About the time that I graduated from college, I'd developed bilateral tendinitis in both wrists. It took me years of physical therapy, habituating stretching, breaks, and new exercise, along with a string of different types of keyboards.

I learned Dvorak on a Kinesis keyboard. Years later, I realized that switching to the high-quality, consistent, mechanical Kinesis was 99% of the payoff.

If I were doing it over again, I'd have just jumped to something like a QWERTY Realforce with Topre switches.

For the record, the absolute worst keyboard was an early Microsoft 'Ergonomic'. The inconstant resistance absolutely tore my tendons up. Also for the record, the best thing to stave off injuries after healing was taking up rock climbing as a hobby.