dvorak

The issue is that qwerty is such a de facto standard that you'll run into many layout issues using dvorak.

Aware of Qwerty's obvious design flaws and the improvements Dvorak had made, I had been toying with the idea of learning Dvorak for quite some time.

As a side note, i can say that typing English in Dvorak was more comfortable and natural, than Qwerty.

And if you control your typing environments, it's better to stay with Dvorak than to switch back to Qwerty.

It is pretty clear that my fingers travel less distance on a dvorak keyboard than they did on qwerty.

For its ergonomic benefits, no, and my two friends that learned Dvorak share this opinion.

You won't be using Dvorak on mobile devices, but this is no big deal.

The learning process was slow and comical until I started having Dvorak reflexes on a Qwerty keyboard.

I switched hoping to be able to type faster, so if that's the measure of success, then dvorak failed.

I do think it's possible for a better keyboard layout to speed you up, but dvorak isn't that layout.

Imagine if Dvorak shifted his focus entirely to Internet security and learned enough Visual Basic to write Windows utilities, and you've got the flavor.

Today I am still not faster with dvorak than I was with qwerty when I switched.

Because of this, typing on dvorak has an overall "calmer" feel to it than qwerty.

But after I switched to dvorak keyboard layout navigating with "hjkl" did not seem that enticing any more.

If you want to learn Dvorak, by all means go ahead, but don't do so with the wrong expectations.

Dvorak is much more comfortable and the programmer dvk variant is really well laid out for coders.

I switched in college, basically by forcing myself to write all my papers and AIM chats in Dvorak.