Take a look at Programmer's Dvorak[1], for a more developer friendly version of dvorak. Other than that, replacing old muscle memories takes some time and prac

Take a look at Programmer's Dvorak[1], for a more developer friendly version of dvorak. Other than that, replacing old muscle memories takes some time and practice. It took me a full two weeks of half-day practice to type at an acceptable speed with the new layout. I'm using a mac, and I mapped the caps lock key to ctrl, which is in a more natural position to press with my left pinky. As my both hands are always on home row when I'm typing, M-x, C-c, C-w, navigation etc. all comes naturally now. I've been using programmer's dvorak for 6 or so years. If I need to do copy-paste etc. with one hand (when using mouse), I switch back to Qwerty with one quick keyboard shortcut (cmd+shift+a for me), than switch back to dvorak when I'm done. [1]: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/