FYI, the "key sticking" origin of qwerty is probably a myth: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-t...

By preventing the key sticking problem, it was more efficient than earlier designs - it wasn't designed to be inefficient.

For all the hype I hear about dvorak and other alternate keyboard layouts, I've never met anyone who could type significantly faster on it than I could on qwerty. This isn't objective in any way but from experience I can't say its any 'better'. As for ergonomics and other peripheral effects, I can't comment as I haven't looked into them.

Well objectively it's less finger travel and more home row use, so it has its merits. The issue is that qwerty is such a de facto standard that you'll run into many layout issues using dvorak.

I agree. I have a bit faster typing speed right now with dvorak. not sure if it is really super-better, but I definitely benefited from http://www.typingstudy.com