> - The most important part of the Dvorak keyboard is that the most frequent English letters are on the home row with the vowels pushed to the left. This means

> - The most important part of the Dvorak keyboard is that the most frequent English letters are on the home row with the vowels pushed to the left. This means that you're less likely to move your fingers from the home row and more likely to switch between hands for each letter. Thats the theory of why Dvorak is faster and more comfortable. It's a little crazy that E isn't on the Qwerty home row. > - It was much harder to switch to a new layout than I expected. It took about a month of typing with Dvorak every day and destroyed my ability to type on a qwerty keyboard. For a period during this transition I couldn't really type well on either keyboard, not fun, and not easy to explain to my boss why I couldn't fucking type. Interestingly I can still type fine on my iphone qwerty keyboard, so it is apparently a separate process in my brain. This so accurately describes my experience, that I'm now piqued to see if others respond the same as well. I took on Dvirak as a learning challenge as I was finishing up my degree (and also to stop people from using my user account at work). It took me 4 weeks to become comfortable in Dvorak, one year to become proficient (Dvorak wpm > qwerty wpm) and about two years to regain proficiency in qwerty. It helps tremendously that I use both, equally, throughout the day thanks to shared computers. As a side note: holy hell writing HN comments within Reeder on ios is a pain.