I’m not worried about any of that. I am interested in typing faster (documents). I actually started this week learning Dvorak. Let’s see if I can keep at it.
Matt
dsissitka
If your goal is WPM Dvorak alone isn’t going to make that much of a difference.
Here’s a casual 174 WPM with Plover:
Matt
And to lower error rate. Dvorak foots the bill, so far it’s been quite easy to learn. Proficiency — we will see as I go along 
Don’t get me wrong, for my programming ventures QWERTY, it’s only for writing am I interested in being more efficient. I write hundreds upon hundreds of pages of documents a year. Shoot I may end up just sticking with QWERTY if I can’t switch mental contexts and keep making mistakes. I do that with the two languages I speak all the time.
simon
My ErgoDox EZ Glow arrived on Tuesday and I wanted to give it a few days until I posted some initial thoughts.
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It is a lot more comfortable to type on than my Apple Magic Keyboard 2, both in terms of space and also tactile feedback. I’m currently on the sofa using a MacBook and the keyboard feels really weird!
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I may change the keyswitches from Cherry MX Brown to something a bit more ‘Clicky’ like the Kailh Gold. I’m not going to rush into that however.
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The configurator is brilliant and it’s a lot of fun tweaking layouts and creating custom layers. I’ve submitted a few feature requests for it (including a simple macro system so that you could generate things like
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I’m learning to touch-type properly. I tend to use six fingers to type and am pretty fast but I’m not a touch-typist. I think that the keyboard will be even better if I can touch-type however so I’m going to put in the effort.
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I’m expecting this to be the case for a few weeks but my muscle memory throws me completely at times. It’s not just that some keys are very different (space being left thumb activated for example) but also that there are key combinations I use when writing code where I’m not conscious of the keys I press so having to think about them and then find them is proving to be the most painful part for me.
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I considered trying a couple of alternative keyboard layouts like (Programmer) Dvorak or Colemak but decided against it because of still using my MacBook and also iOS which doesn’t really support alternatives to QWERTY very well.
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ErgoDox EZ are really helpful people and the few questions I’ve asked and the suggestions I’ve made have all been responded to promptly and in a very friendly way.
Overall I’m really pleased and I knew I was going to face a learning curve so whilst occasionally typing can be frustrating I am slowly improving and retraining my muscle memory and feeling and seeing improvements is my typing is very encouraging. I’ve got no regrets at all about my purchase.
AstonJ
simon
The keyboard (including the wrist rests and tilt kit cost £283 and then UPS added £52.36 on top, of which £40.86 is VAT which I can claim back.
It’s not cheap but I look on it as an investment in my overall welfare like the ergonomic chair I bought a couple of years ago.
dsissitka
If you’re interested in keyboards you should check out QMK. It’s an open source keyboard firmware that lets you do a lot of interesting things. Here are a couple of my favorite features:
The leader key: If you’re a Vim user you probably know what this is. I think this one is best explained with an example. On Windows the screenshot shortcuts look something like this:
Print Screen: Take a screenshot of the desktop.Windows + Print Screen: Take a screenshot of the desktop and save it to a file.Windows + Shift + S: Take a screenshot of a selection.Alt + Print Screen: Take a screenshot of the window.
With the leader key you can do something like this:
<Leader Key>sd: This means “press the leader key, then s, then d” and it’s a mnemonic for “take a (s)creenshot of the (d)esktop”.<Leader Key>sdf: Take a (s)creenshot of the (d)esktop and save it to a (f)ile.<Leader Key>ss: Take a (s)creenshot of a (s)election.<Leader Key>sw: Take a (s)creenshot of the (w)indow.
Mod Tap + Ignore Mod Tap Interrupt: If your workflow is primarily keyboard driven imagine how convenient it would be to have all of your modifiers on the home row. You can hit many shortcuts without having to leave the home row (Ctrl + A, Ctrl + S, Ctrl + Shift + S, Ctrl + F, Ctrl + K, Ctrl + L, …) and most while only having to move a single finger a single key from the home row. I imagine this would’ve been nice to have back when I was an Emacs user.
For more see the features bit at https://docs.qmk.fm/.
gonglexin
mstibbard
I’ve got an Anne Pro 2, mostly because I’m moving around a lot and a Bluetooth 60% keyboard is very convenient. Can use it with my iPad Pro as well. When I eventually settle down I look forward to getting a full size again 
dbern
no – I haven’t learned dvorak or colemak yet. I was in a space where someone I might’ve paired, but now that I work from home I might put a colemak layer on and see how it goes!