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I'm way faster with Dvorak, and am 100% touch-typist only. If I look at the keyboard I'll get mixed up. My phone keyboards are QWERTY though--go figure.
Dvorak doesn't really make sense for phones anyway. There's zero benefits. Maybe even negatively since qwerty spreads out the most common keys it's easier for autocorrect to guess what you are actually trying to hit. I have no scientific data on it tho. Just a feeling.
Nope, you're 100% right. Dvorak is efficient because it places high-use keys in the middle row and usually each key alternates between left and right hands. The use-case for a phone is usually single handed, or where you want one thump to be close to all the letters in a word. QWERTY is much better I think for one or two digits.
I tried it for a few hours because I thought it might be faster not flipping from QWERTY to Dvorak depending upon my device.
Turns out my muscle memory when using phones is as good as my muscle memory with keyboards.