Crazy, I snapped a picture of the exact same sign Saturday, and was amused to see the polar opposite in the 500 Club bathroom a couple blocks away.

I learned dvorak a number of years ago and love it. I had maxed out at about 55wpm on qwerty and took my 2-week christmas break to intensively retrain myself when I didn't need to type. At the end of the 2 weeks, I was only typing 25wpm and had messed up my qwerty ability, but I stuck with it. I didn't allow myself to use qwerty for a couple months and my dvorak speed quickly rose to my previous qwerty speed.

In the real world, there are times I have to use qwerty, and gradually I became able to switch back and forth easily. The weird thing is, to type qwerty, I have to look at the keyboard, not to see where the keys are, but as some sort of mental trigger. I made a rearranged dvorak keyboard, but I can't look at it and type dvorak! The speed advantage isn't huge: I type no more than 70wpm, but it feels like a lot less work; your fingers have to move around a lot less.

As a writing teacher, it was also beneficial to understand the frustration students who don't type well have to deal with. I really hope Apple enables a dvorak layout on the iPhone. They had it hard wired into the Apple IIc, afterall!