I can hardly find anyone on GH who also types Dvorak,

I've seen a fair enough number, I'd thought, in my few days here of folk who self-identify as Dvorak typists.

I've been using this layout by preference for somewhere (  ) between 10 and 15 years. Where I really learned it, was hanging out in IRC ... if you want to be heard, you have to type OK.

Typing speed, I think, is around 80 WPM, and is with five or so W/M of qwerty speed but I don't remember which is faster. Except the past five years I have successfully excluded that from my life except where I'm operating someone else's computer. Which, as a computer professional is about half my job so whatever.

 I've never typed on the colemak layout. It doesn't look like my fingers would prefer it, they way they've said they like the dvorak layout.

We need a ANSI VS DVORAK.

Doesn't ANSI specify QWERTY layout?

I use Dvorak, as do many of the other users here. I don't want to name names and out anyone though.

I learned in late 2007, and have had to keep up on QWERTY for work. I type the same speed in both, and can now switch over relatively quickly. I'm still learning proper technique on Dvorak with my ergodox though.

I actually wanted to learn left-handed Dvorak, and studied it for about a day, then I had a paper to write, and went cold turkey on my model M with  Dvorak for a while.

It's become a problem, as almost all the keyboards I have that work are programmed for hardware Dvorak, and many have Dvorak-specific keycaps.

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Most of my M's have the keycaps swapped around for Dvorak layout as well. All my QWERTY keyboards seem to be at work, so if my roommate needs one, I have to dig out an old cherry POS kb or something from the basement.

I'm a big proponent of Dvorak (well, alternative layouts in general), and prefer it to colemak because it's not based on QWERTY. Given my uncommon reasons, I recommend people look up alternative layouts and choose whichever they prefer.

I've bought 20% of thick PBT Dvorak keycaps made, and I sort-of regret not getting the dvorak spherical keycaps set in round4. Maybe there's still a chance.

I worked in Pittsburgh for a week in 2000, and the guy I worked with there was a major fan of Dvorak, he touch typed on a qwerty layout laptop. I swapped about 6 months later and been with it ever since. I found it very easy to switch, after about 3 days I was back to 60-70wpm. My sister also swapped about 2003 and she's just swapped back to qwerty a month ago because of shared work computers.

I hit about 100wpm and I was about the same on qwerty, with really bad typing habits. I have a set of OEM keys from WASD in dvorak layout, but since my latest keyboard has cherry profile, I found it close enough just to move the standard set around, the profile errors seem minor to me on cherry keys. Maybe sometime I will go for one of the GB DSA or SA sets sometime, the dvorak's friend.

I swapped to dvorak a few weeks after trying maltron - talk about messing with your head.  It was a heck of a slog - but I love it now. 

A good number of the Advantage 'family' who hang out in the Ergonomics subforum have swapped to one layout or another.

Ive been typing on qwerty all my life, it would seem weird to change to a different format

Ive been typing on qwerty all my life, it would seem weird to change to a different format

Of course, if you don't need the slight increase in speed or the ergonomics (like if you aren't typing for an extended period of time every day), it might not be your thing. I just want to type faster, so I thought that it's no different from learning a different typing technique.

 Typing or touch typing?. I am guessing that a very large percentage of people started with qwerty because that is the default layout in ever keyboard.  I decided to learn  dvorak several years ago because: 1) I feelt so stupid while I was searching for every single key while I was typing 2) I hated when someone else was using my keyboard, so I switched my keycaps to blanks

Ive been typing on qwerty all my life, it would seem weird to change to a different format