Pain free hands

Switching from using a QUERTY
keyboard to a Maltron keyboard and
key layout means Betty Hedrick’s
hands are now free from pain.

“It took me a couple of months to
get up to speed with the optional
Maltron key layout, but I am now
much faster on it than I ever was on
QWERTY,” reports Hedrick in
Western Australia. “My hands always
hurt with conventional keyboards
before, but with Maltron they
stopped hurting after a week. My
goal was and is to preserve my
hands. They have not hurt since!”
Occasionally Hedrick needs to go
back to a QWERTY keyboard and
afterwards finds her speed with the
Maltron keyboard has slowed down.

“I just go to the website and do some
of the training exercises again and it
is fixed. It only takes about 15
minutes of practice, but I find the
training exercises bring me back to
speed faster than just regular
keyboarding,” she says.