It only took a few days of recreational learning to get the basics down. I found a number of lame flash typing games online that helped a lot. There are also a

It only took a few days of recreational learning to get the basics down. I found a number of lame flash typing games online that helped a lot. There are also a few sites with dvorak-oriented typing tests that can help too. To get started, I simply switched OSX into dvorak mode in the International preferences panel and then turned on the keyboard viewer to see the layout on screen. I started just doing things like facebook messages, and it was painful. Minutes just to type a few sentences. But within a day it seems reasonable to be up to 15 wpm or so. The main thing for me was only using it for social communication or typing games, which allows it to remain a fun challenge rather than a big frustration. I still use qwerty often for dev-related things because the muscle memory for shortcut keys seems harder to overcome than it was for typing words.