I switched many years back now. One good thing is that I never got past hunt-and-peck with QWERTY, despite being quite fast. As I started learning Dvorak by doi

I switched many years back now. One good thing is that I never got past hunt-and-peck with QWERTY, despite being quite fast. As I started learning Dvorak by doing touch-typing, an inevitability given a physical QWERTY layout, it now resides in a different area of my brain. That means that I can touch-type Dvorak, hunt-and-peck QWERTY , and can easily switch between them at any time. But it still doesn't mean that typing on QWERTY doesn't feel like someone took pliers to my hands. Typing on QWERTY feels like I'm purposely trying to hurt my hands. That keyboard layout should be outlawed or its use at least strongly discouraged, I'm not kidding, for being: a) Pointlessly wrong and b) Doing actual physical damage to its users, more so than any other layout Sure, it may take some weeks of learning Dvorak to realise how utterly painful QWERTY can be, but QWERTY is god-awful. Even Cmd-X/C/V now feel wrong, because you're engaged in a clawing motion that leaves either one's middle or pointing digit in a very bizarre position. With Dvorak, the combined movement in the left and right hands is probably about the same as the movement needed in the left hand alone even in the sub-optimal Cmd-V or Cmd-Z - with QWERTY Cmd-X/C/V means that the entire left hand has to move, while with Dvorak the hand can stay mostly on the home row.