I&#x27;ve actually given dvorak a fair shot - used it exclusively for a complete year, bought a blind keyboard to speed up learning, practiced daily with dedicated tools for the first month or so. I also took the opportunity to learn proper typing style, rather than a sort of 9 fingered hunt and peck system I had fallen into.<p>The result is absolute, abject failure. More pain in the wrist and upper arm and noticeable reduction of work efficiency. I&#x27;m now back to qwerty and hands flying over the keyboard.<p>I&#x27;ve however come to the conclusion that it&#x27;s not specific to dvorak, but rather an inherent flaw of the &quot;proper&quot; way of typing, at least when it applies to programming, at least when it comes to the way I do it: I&#x27;m using the arrow keys rather a lot, especially since I don&#x27;t ever use a mouse to navigate in text.<p>The arrow keys are far enough of the &quot;main&quot; part of the keyboard that I can&#x27;t reach them without moving my right hand away from the proper, F-J position. Getting it back to the right position afterwards often involves a bit of fumbling, to the point where I sometime shift it one entire column to the right and need to delete the 5 or 6 characters I typed before my brain caught up with what was happening. This is both frustrating and, over the course of a long day, exhausting.<p>I know that there are solutions for this: I could use emacs-like shortcuts to navigate (ctrl-n for -&gt;, say), I could use fancy keyboards such as the typematrix which map the arrow keys to cleverly choosen normal keys with a FN modifier... but at this point, I just want to be able to type comfortably again, not learn yet another alien (to me) method of typing in the hopes that in a year or two, I&#x27;ll be back to where I was one year ago.