I switched to the dvorak layout in my early twenties and it's been well worth it. It's not so much about speed, as it is about accuracy, and especially about co

I switched to the dvorak layout in my early twenties and it's been well worth it. It's not so much about speed, as it is about accuracy, and especially about comfort. I would recommend in switching that you do NOT move your keycaps around, or draw new letters on your keyboard, or any other mental crutch, but instead simply memorize the new layout mentally. It won't take long, and that small step will hasten your transition. There were a few interesting side effects however. For the first couple of days, I realized that I could no longer spell some words -- my life is so terminal oriented that much of my rote spelling knowledge was based on muscle memory. In the first couple of days while feeling really inept at the keyboard, that feeling also carried over into regular voice conversations -- I had to remind myself that I wasn't speaking impaired, only typing impaired. I easily exceeded my old qwerty performance within the first several days. During the transition, it was an added challenge to do everything, and that reminded me the previous generation of punch card programmers describing their work. Suddenly it became more efficient to think about the problem harder before trying solutions, rather than just firing rapidly from initial thoughts until I had bludgeoned a solution. It's amusing to secretly change some unfortunate person's keyboard to dvorak, watch the bewilderment, then type a few sentences, and walk away. "Works fine for me. I don't know what your problem is..."