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> your hands alternate keys so much more than they do on QWERTY. I'm not sure if that has been studied for Colemak.

From TFA:

    The keys in Colemak are scientifically arranged with the following goals in mind:
    ...
    Typing should alternate between the hands for greater speed and comfort

Right, I saw that it was a goal, but when I clicked on the source it was just a link to the colemak advocacy wiki, which seems about as biased as I am towards Dvorak :)

I did find this page[1] on the wiki, and it appears that Colemak does way better than QWERTY, and worse than Dvorak. However, this was a test devised by a Dvorak advocate.. so it may be biased as well.

[1]: http://colemak.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hand_alternation

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