Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak?

jamesh asks: "I'm interested in switching over to an alternate keyboard layout, probably Dvorak, before I begin to suffer any effects of RSI. I'm almost 30 and have been typing since I was about 8, and these days spend most of my workday in front of a computer, typing away at a keyboard. I've searched the Internet and most people's comments are that within a few months they were up to or faster than their previous speed, with better accuracy. I'm mostly a programmer, but I do spend time at client sites and do need to spend time at various users computers to have a look at whatever hole they've dug themselves into, and so I will need to switch between QWERTY and Dvorak mode fairly frequently. What others have found when switching back and forth, as required? Can you mentally just flip back between them, or do you 'lose' your QWERTY skills and become 'hunt & peck' when faced with the old keyboard layout?"

Comments

Cliff is a retarded nigger

[Anonymous Coward]

Its QWERTY not QWERY you stupid retarded nigger

Deformed

[Mr. Underbridge]

My "home" position is is "q-s-d-v" on the left, and "n-k-o-p" on the right (or pretty close to that, my fingers actually sort of float above it).

Huh? Did somebody take a hammer to either your hands or your keyboard at some point?

Re:...yes...

[Fjornir]

And you missed the part where I told him that he'd missed the joke, fucktard.

Re:Similar scenario

[fiddlesticks]

> Ten hours a day at work typing, followed by 8
> hours at home typing, will set you up for major
> problems.

uh-huh.

oh wait, you were talking about RSI, not the obvious problems that will arise if you spend 18hrs/day typing since your early 20s, instead of, i dunno, life, girls/boys, going abroad, out of the basement, etc