It's been a while since I was going back and forth between the two, but in my college days I worked for a state agency doing word processing on the side. The agency had some Dvorak machines, and back then they were physically converted to Dvorak. I learned Dvorak with a "test group" (where's that banana), and although I didn't really achieve any higher speed on Dvorak, it was more "restful" typing Dvorak.
Anyway, being part time I did have to fill in on a number of workstations, and having being able to type BOTH Dvorak and Qwerty enabled me to fill in more often (i.e., more work hours). I found that if I typed a common sentence a few times (e.g., now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country), I could switch back and forth within a few minutes.
I recently tried my hand at Dvorak again, and it took a bit longer, but I was getting it again after a while.
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It's been a while since I was going back and forth between the two, but in my college days I worked for a state agency doing word processing on the side. The agency had some Dvorak machines, and back then they were physically converted to Dvorak. I learned Dvorak with a "test group" (where's that banana), and although I didn't really achieve any higher speed on Dvorak, it was more "restful" typing Dvorak. Anyway, being part time I did have to fill in on a number of workstations, and having being able to type BOTH Dvorak and Qwerty enabled me to fill in more often (i.e., more work hours). I found that if I typed a common sentence a few times (e.g., now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country), I could switch back and forth within a few minutes. I recently tried my hand at Dvorak again, and it took a bit longer, but I was getting it again after a while.