It's based on some research not available when Dvorak was designed, but with similar goals plus ease of switching from and compatibility with Qwerty (ex: most punctuation and bottom row are unchanged). It took under two weeks to get to about 25wpm, which was about where it stopped feeling painfully slow for me.
I picked colemak for this reason. (Which is made ironic because I use emacs and so it doesn't really matter because the keybinds are different anyway.)
Its worth checking it out. Hard to tell if a new layout is any better or worse.
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I've been using Colemak for a bit over a month now. http://colemak.com/
It's based on some research not available when Dvorak was designed, but with similar goals plus ease of switching from and compatibility with Qwerty (ex: most punctuation and bottom row are unchanged). It took under two weeks to get to about 25wpm, which was about where it stopped feeling painfully slow for me.
I picked colemak for this reason. (Which is made ironic because I use emacs and so it doesn't really matter because the keybinds are different anyway.) Its worth checking it out. Hard to tell if a new layout is any better or worse.