Hey there. I had typed up a longer response to this earlier when my screen suddenly went blank on what I assume is a very buggy corporate laptop. Here's a lesse

Hey there. I had typed up a longer response to this earlier when my screen suddenly went blank on what I assume is a very buggy corporate laptop. Here's a lesser response typed over touch screen. It's not like I train anyone to type with Dvorak or anything, so all my advice is really just personal anecdotes... At work I deal with RDP connections and various types of virtual machines. The keyboard layout settings don't persist across these various interfaces/consoles, so I have to switch between Dvorak and QWERTY very frequently, sometimes switching between both in just a minute or less. It takes me just one second to warm up to either. I attained this 3 years after learning Dvorak. I can this say without a doubt that switching can become second nature, just like QWERTY<->QWERTZ. In the beginning, a hardware Dvorak keyboard with blank keycaps makes a critical difference. It was painful to use for the first month, but sticking with it got me to where I am. I used GNU Typist to learn Dvorak. It was simple to pick up in just one week. The hard part is developing the muscle memory so that you don't need to think about typing before actually typing. Once you get over that hurdle, your performance will get better and better. Last point to make is that when most of us first began typing, it was hunting and pecking on QWERTY. Some of those early habits stick with us and we never realize it. Learning to touch type any other radically different keyboard layout, Dvorak or other non-QWERTY alternatives, requires intentional focus. If you excercise that focus properly, you will probably be better at typing whatever you've learned better than you typed any QWERTY variants. Not just because of a presumed inheritent advantage over QWERTY, but something to do with how when we get older, we learn how to learn better.