I got the urge to learn how to touch type in my mid-twenties. I didn't take typing classes in high school because I took programming classes for my tech credit

I got the urge to learn how to touch type in my mid-twenties. I didn't take typing classes in high school because I took programming classes for my tech credits, so I never learned. I started off using Qwerty but found my hands cramping up. I fantasized about getting an ergonomic keyboard to make it easier but I thought it was strange to have to carry my keyboard between work and home (I didn't want to buy two, they're expensive) Looking at the Typematrix keyboards peeked my interest in Dvorak. I was already trying to learn Esperanto at the time, so what the hell, what's one more oddity to add to my list. I did dvorak7min everyday for a week or two and completely switched. I've been touch typing using Dvorak for seven years now. I never had the hand cramping issues I had with Qwerty. I am sure if I tried hard, I could type fast but I enjoy how comfortable Dvorak is rather than the raw speed it would bring. The only side effect of Dvorak was I ended up switching from Vim to EMACS because the hjkl movement keys are no longer on the home row. Don't worry, I gave up that Esperanto thing. I figured that with the amount of effort I was exerting to learn Esperanto I could learn Spanish. I never did learn Spanish.