You're not going to type faster with the Dvorak layout.  Maybe piano lessons would be a better use of time than Dvorak practice.<p>The layout is better for programming, though, so I recommend learning it.  Underscore and hyphen are in the perfect place, and having the comma and period keys on the upper row is nicer for the hands.<p>Dvorak is a lot better for Emacs, too, if only because C-x stretches out the hand instead of scrunching it up.<p>I've become ignorant of the benefits of Qwerty, though.  For some period of time, I got annoyed by the positioning of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, but eventually I just got used to using two hands for those commands.  That's the one specific lingering annoyance that I can think of.