After suffering mild RSI in my early 20s, it was completely and permanently resolved by switching to DVORAK for a year, and then back to QWERTY. It wasn’t an intentional solution, but forcing myself to re-learn to type from scratch, twice, massively improved my typing habits.
Googling around on the benefits of DVORAK for RSI offers more anecdotes in either direction, so take this with a whole pile of salt.
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After suffering mild RSI in my early 20s, it was completely and permanently resolved by switching to DVORAK for a year, and then back to QWERTY. It wasn’t an intentional solution, but forcing myself to re-learn to type from scratch, twice, massively improved my typing habits.
Googling around on the benefits of DVORAK for RSI offers more anecdotes in either direction, so take this with a whole pile of salt.