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* Obligatory Pine joke here *

(I know the Elm people don't like jokes about the email client. Tough; they should have picked a name that wasn't already used.)

I switched to Dvorak about 15 years ago. I agree with others here: I switched from being a Qwerty typist with poor form, to a "correct" Dvorak typist. In the end I'm a pretty speedy typist (~130 wpm), but I can still Qwerty well enough that it isn't painful.

However, I think the speed-up can mostly be attributed to forcing me to have a clean slate and learn to type correctly, rather than any intrinsic advantage of Dvorak. On Qwerty I typed the style I'd evolved since elementary school, and on Dvorak I touch-type like I'm meant to.

Same here -- I jumped from about 70 on Qwerty to about 130 on Dvorak. I think it's almost entirely due to the fact that I now type "correctly", rather than anything great about Dvorak. (I don't really recommend switching to other people, but I don't have the motivation to move back.)

Does everyone mean the same thing by "wpm"? I almost always score over "125 wpm" on Typeracer.com, and there are plenty of people there who score higher than that. So I suspect there is some inconsistency in the counting between that site and the article. (I don't even consider myself especially fast.)

Just run "M-x tetris" in emacs. Works everywhere.