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apl 

  > In terms of speed increase, I didn’t measure my typing
  > speed before switching so I can’t compare objectively,
  > but I know I type way faster now.
Not exactly convincing, to be honest.
ataugeron
Yeah I wish I measured that before switching ;-) That will be a good lesson for me: next time I experiment with something, I'll run some tests before...
joshbaptiste
Hmm looks promising, but the only problem is every where we go, school, work, internet cafe etc.. we would have to go back the QWERTY layout.
michaelcampbell
This was my biggest obstacle. I used Dvorak for 3-4 years in the early 90's. It was great, and I often miss it, but such were the pre-laptop (and pre thumb-drive) days, and I had to move around a lot of machines that I either was not allowed to or couldn't install a Dvorak driver. So I switched back, but my speed and accuracy was no worse on Dvorak; I was about 30% quicker if memory serves; accuracy was about the same, or at least within statistical noise.

The other irritant was editor commands. I'm an emacs guy and some just didn't translate well. And I was working on a *nix system, and "ls" was the "ol" keys. Third finger for both letters. Ack!

lightblade
Now..what I want to know is..how to best combine the power of dvorak and vim