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My typing speed with Dvorak is around the same as with QWERTY too, perhaps because I've not been using it for as many years. It took me 3 months to get up to speed (contrary to Wikipedia's claim of a year), and it's pretty easy to make the context switch between QWERTY and Dvorak - where I only make mistakes in the first few minutes of switching - and not six to eight weeks as Wikipedia suggests.

I didn't learn Dvorak to increase my typing speed - I learned because I was developing RSI in my right hand and put it down to QWERTY (and the mouse). The benefits of Dvorak are pretty clear when typing up large texts, although pain is still present after a few hours of typing. I found ergonomic keyboards to be a better solution than changing keyboard layout for dealing with RSI though, and I typically use QWERTY these days because configuring application's keybindings for dvorak is too awkward, and the gains are too little.

I've been considering learning Workman or QGMLWY, as their supposed benefits are even greater than Dvorak, and they have CUA-shortcut friendly layouts.