Dvorak. One thing that was rather odd for me was that while I was learning the Dvorak keyboard and for a short time afterwards I couldn't touch type on QWERTY

Dvorak. One thing that was rather odd for me was that while I was learning the Dvorak keyboard and for a short time afterwards I couldn't touch type on QWERTY anymore. Then one suddenly, about six months after, it came back to me and now I can touch type in both layouts. It's almost as if the 'QWERTY typing center' of my brain had to house two layouts for a while until Dvorak got its own place. Adding to that observation, during that same time period I could almost feel my synapses firing faster and new neuron connections being made. I felt like I got a turbo boost to my IQ during that period where I thought fast, was more creative and just generally sharper. That effect, whether placebo or otherwise has completely disappeared by now, so it's nothing intrinsic to the format.