if you are interested in vim ergonomics and alternative layouts, i wrote extensively about the vim + colemak layout i use on a daily basis: https://github.com/wbolster/evil-colemak-basics#design-ratio...

The position of the keys has little to do with one's efficiency in VIM. Autonomic memory is everything. I use hjkl in Dvorak just as efficiently as I did in Qwerty and Colemak.

I thought about remapping at the beginning. But with vim you almost need to remap the whole keyboard to get hjkl in the usual place ... so I didn't. The hjkl on dvorak is at jcvp on qwerty, they are not too uncomfortable.

but now I realize it might be a benefit: I don't use hjkl as much as before, but mostly rely on other ways to jump, so this disadvantage actually makes using vim a bit more efficient.