I've actually given dvorak a fair shot - used it exclusively for a complete year, bought a blind keyboard to speed up learning, practiced daily with dedicated t

I've actually given dvorak a fair shot - used it exclusively for a complete year, bought a blind keyboard to speed up learning, practiced daily with dedicated tools for the first month or so. I also took the opportunity to learn proper typing style, rather than a sort of 9 fingered hunt and peck system I had fallen into. The result is absolute, abject failure. More pain in the wrist and upper arm and noticeable reduction of work efficiency. I'm now back to qwerty and hands flying over the keyboard. I've however come to the conclusion that it's not specific to dvorak, but rather an inherent flaw of the "proper" way of typing, at least when it applies to programming, at least when it comes to the way I do it: I'm using the arrow keys rather a lot, especially since I don't ever use a mouse to navigate in text. The arrow keys are far enough of the "main" part of the keyboard that I can't reach them without moving my right hand away from the proper, F-J position. Getting it back to the right position afterwards often involves a bit of fumbling, to the point where I sometime shift it one entire column to the right and need to delete the 5 or 6 characters I typed before my brain caught up with what was happening. This is both frustrating and, over the course of a long day, exhausting. I know that there are solutions for this: I could use emacs-like shortcuts to navigate (ctrl-n for ->, say), I could use fancy keyboards such as the typematrix which map the arrow keys to cleverly choosen normal keys with a FN modifier... but at this point, I just want to be able to type comfortably again, not learn yet another alien (to me) method of typing in the hopes that in a year or two, I'll be back to where I was one year ago.