1@TomWijsman: not quite, that question is specifically Dvorak (well, almost; I'm discounting the "(or other alternative layouts)" part), while this is Dvorak vs. Colemak. Colemak is only mentioned once in the responses to that question. – Chris Morgan – 2011-11-24T06:03:00.973

@ChrisMorgan: It's still a duplicate. People are required to do some effort / homework before asking their questions. The question title used here results in the other question as the first suggestion, my answer there provides an accepted way of how one compares two keyboard lay-outs. The Stack Exchange network is about learning and solving actual practical problems, a homework question where you ask to "do this analysis for me" when it has already been shown is simply either a duplicate or off-topic...

@TomWijsman I don't follow. At all. How is it the same? The selected answer (yours) compares Dvorak to QWERTY, which is what the question was implicitly asking for. Or more generally, you could say, it's a question about what benefits a 'planned' layout brings about. So you could argue this would be a duplicate if it was asking how good Colemak is at improving productivity, because similar benefits are found. But here I rule QWERTY out of the equation and put the two head-to-head, it's a completely different take on the subject of keyboard layouts. – Vic Goldfeld – 2011-12-17T18:39:22.207

@VicSzpilman: It is still a X vs Y question for which the method is now known, hence it is a homework duplicate for the reasoning in my previous comment. Is it really that hard to click this link and copy paste a large share of text into it to start with, or wade through the Google results that show both sides in favor? Why should we do that for you? Please be constructive...

That wouldn't answer my question, and arguably it doesn't answer that question fully as well. This text-sample comparing is far from covering the whole picture of why one would make the switch. But that question asks for effectiveness bottom-line, so it's a fitting way to compare. I'm asking for pros and cons, preferably from first-hand Colemak experience. – Vic Goldfeld – 2011-12-18T11:23:58.767

@VicSzpilman: That's inherently subjective, here's an example: "Colemak has the advantage that many keys are similar to Qwerty making it easier to transition, this however goes at the cost of being a less efficient keyboard lay-out than other keyboard lay-outs like Dvorak" On the other hand people first-hand Colemak experience will give you biased Colemak advantages. I don't see what you could learn from that. It's really not useful to have a question for each pair of keyboard lay-outs... – Tom Wijsman – 2012-01-08T21:37:56.437

1But don't you think this question will eventually be useful, when answered, especially since there are only really 3 keyboard layouts worth comparing? – Vic Goldfeld – 2012-01-10T16:22:16.077

This was not getting any extra attention, and does seem to be a dupe of the older question. Closed. – Rory Alsop – 2013-01-08T13:46:08.390