The Dvorak experiment is over

That's right, I gave up. I looked back at how long I'd been working on this and decided that I couldn't stand typing that slow anymore. So long as I don't think about what keys are where, I'm already back up to my normal typing speed. Maybe a little slower as I have occasionally forgotten that I put the "T" key back on the other side of the keyboard, but my muscle memory is much stronger than my knew memories of where the keys are, so that's cool.

I'm not saying that I don't believe Dvorak isn't the better designed keyboard, far from it. I'm saying that in a world where getting away from qwerty keyboards is impossible that I also need to be able to type quickly in, Dvorak isn't working for me. I've been typing for like a decade so getting rid of years of experience in exchange for something new is just not feasible. If I were unemployed for a while I might give Dvorak another go, but since I cannot escape qwerty at the moment I'm just going to keep 90 wpm as my weapon of typing choice. Who knows, maybe after all that practice, I'm going to see a speed boost in my typing even though I wasn't practicing with the same keyboard layout. Seems like I'm typing a little faster, but I could just be so happy to not be typing at 40 wpm that everything seems like a hundred miles an hour.

Anyway, I still get geek cred for trying, and I did become a competent dvorak typist. But competent has never been enough before, so why start with competency now? Back to getting things done very quickly. I don't know how, but someday I will reach my goal of typing at the speed of human speech. 140 wpm might seem like a crazy impossible goal, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to give it a shot!