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I type well on a QWERTY keyboard. It could be simultaneously true that a Dvorak layout would be better for new typists to learn and use for a lifetime but for me to remain better off unchanged. If I made that choice, it would be because I was interested in the efficient expression of my ideas. (The irony of me typing this on a iPhone on-screen keyboard is painful to me.)

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I learned the Workman layout. I found it advantageous to do so, but I still don't find this to be a good comparison.

The thing is, no matter which keyboard layout you use, there is the same amount of muscle memory required to be learned.

To contrast, a piano requires 12 times as much muscle memory as a Janko keyboard.

Learning to play a piano is hard, and it is made significantly easier by simply changing the physical keyboard layout.

> Learning to play a piano is hard, and it is made significantly easier by simply changing the physical keyboard layout.

Still waiting for one tiny scintilla of evidence.

> Janko keyboard

That looks like an accordionist's nightmare.

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