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I'm not sure if Dvorak is really faster, but I do think it keeps your fingers on the home row more. At this point the main reason I prefer Dvorak is that it lets me have more modifier keys on the left side of the keyboard (without moving to the number row).

I don't think layout matters for speed unless we're talking top 1% of typists. Go on YouTube. Tons of people typing 100+ wpm with two fingers.

I type 60-70 WPM with 2-4 fingers lol

I program with the German layout, found it pretty okay.

I found it ok until I switched to UK layout. It takes a while to get used to the layout for programming but it does speed up programming a lot for languages that use brackets excessively. Others (e.g. Python) don't really make a difference.