I switchedin 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 recomm

I switchedin 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 not move your keycaps around, or draw new letters on your keyboard, or any other mental crutch, but instead simply memorize the new layout. It won't take long, and that small step will hasten your transition. There were a few interesting side effects during the transition. 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. During the transition, it was an added challenge to do everything, and that sort of reminded me of how the older generation of punch card programmers often described their work. Suddenly it became more efficient to think about the problem harder before trying solutions, increasing the chance of success, rather than just firing rapidly from initial thoughts until I had bludgeoned a solution.