Back in October of 2017, I chose to drop QWERTY cold turkey and force myself to learn how to type on the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. I tried to acc...
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I switched to Dvorak and used it for around 9 years until I switched back to QWERTY about a year ago.
The big thing it did was re-teach my fingers how to touch type from the home row and not do a sort of four-finger claw hunt-and-peck action when typing. It definitely helped me break some bad habits, but I don't think it was substantially better than QWERTY in hindsight.
I do occasionally miss the home row, but the times where I even think about it are sort of rare.
Neither layout strongly effected my typing speed once I got past the learning/relearning curve.
Interesting, I'm sure it's all about preference. For me, at this time, I love how Dvorak feels compared to QWERTY.
Am I a faster typer? Sometimes but not on a day to day average.
I tried to switch to Dvorak a while back, but ultimately abandoned the attempt, as it was VERY difficult to unlearn qwerty. (I went for straight Dvorak, not the hybrid one that is supposed to be easier to learn.)
One concern I had was when I need to pair program or work on friend/family computers. I also do a bit of gaming and do not relish the idea of remapping keys in every game. Did you run into these things? Or maybe discovered they weren't problems after all?
I would like to try again, because qwerty was intended to slow down typing on mechanical typewriters to prevent jamming. We haven't had that problem for many decades now. And it resonates with me that Dvorak actually did the research to come up with a keyboard layout that is designed for humans, not the typing mechanism.
I had an attempt prior to 2017 that I also gave up on so don't feel bad.
No one can use my computer but I can get by using theirs. I'm very slow on QWERTY but I use it so little that I don't care to keep that speed up. Some people do both but I am not one.
I found this to not really be an issue. Once you remap them they are remapped for the life of the installation.
That's what resonated with me too. But if Dvorak is not your style you may want to try out Colemak.
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