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placing the keys used most in everyday English on the home row, definately worked better for me.

Wouldn't work for me. I don't use the keys most used in everyday English -- I'm a C++ programmer .

Feh. I'll see that, and raise you one:

I'm a perl programmer -- I'm not sure I use *any* keys found in everyday English.

I've been using dvorak for a couple years, now, self-taught out of boredom at work. I didn't measure my typing speed on Qwerty, but, since I'd been touch-typing for about 15 years, it was pretty quick (not 100wpm, but not hunt-n-peck, either). I haven't been typing on dvorak for that long, so I still don't feel quite as fast, and I sometimes have a slightly higher error rate on dvorak, too, which I think will go away the longer I type on dvorak. Sometimes, though, when I'm in a groove, I feel like I can type waaay faster on dvorak for regular English, than I could on Qwerty. Totally anecdotal, of course.

I still type Qwerty at work, when I'm at someone else's work station, but it's not exactly touch-typing, anymore. For a while, I'd totally lost it, but the touch typing is coming back slowly, as I do more Qwerty. It's getting easier to switch back and forth.

One thing, though: dvorak is not made for unix. "ls<enter>" is all pinky on the right hand. Bleh.