[retrac]

I found it easier to learn ten-finger touch typing with a whole new layout, than to unlearn years of terrible habits with QWERTY. Took about a week to easily exceed my QWERTY speed.

As far as I can tell, it has not affected my speed with QWERTY at all. Using QWERTY is slightly frustrating as I'm about half as fast as with Dvorak, but I still do the same old annoying 30 - 40 wpm with my four-finger peck technique that I couldn't unlearn.

It does take a few seconds sometimes to adjust when I switch layouts, but I can hop between them pretty easily. The two never really interfere with each other. With Ctrl-C etc., I seem to associate that with a letter, not a physical movement, and it maps too. (Video games are a different question. I usually end up remapping everything.)

[easytiger]

interesting, thanks