| I learned QWERTY first in high school around 2000. An hour a day over, 5 days a week over a month to get it down. Probably a few weeks of practice to do it without hesitation. I learned Dvorak in 2005 or 2006. I spent about 4-5 hours, over 2 evenings with a free typing tutor program. After that it took me about 2 weeks internalize it. At that point I was probably the same speed or faster than before. After that I used QWERTY for a few hours a week for the next few years. For public, and other peoples computers. After a little practice it was easy to switch back and forth without issue. Around 2012, I stopped having to use public and other peoples computers so I stopped using QWERTY but maybe once or twice a year. As of now I can with a little bit of mental effort switch back to using QWERTY, but nowadays I often miss type a few keys in QWERTY. I am slowly loosing it. Some related observations: For the longest time I have been forced to use QWERTY for all onscreen keyboards like my cell phone and tablets. Recently I got a Chromebook, and it let me have onscreen Dvorak. Turns out my brain is currently wired for onscreen QWERTY. I'm not sure if I really should put any effort into learning an onscreen keyboard. I can type both Mandarin Pinyin, and the Japanese equivalent. For whatever reason setting up these input systems hard locks QWERTY underneath them. I have tried to do the mental gymnastics to use QWERTY to write in these other scripts and it is just too frustrating. I end up finding a way to switch it. |