Well, it's probably quite OT, but I don't see how using experienced typists discredits anything. I should think it's the other way around. Well if you have a new linux user and you first test them in windows and then test them in linux you might come up with the idea that linux is less efficient because they know windows and do not know linux. The test would be to test a non computer user in one gui and then test in another gui and find witch one the user for the most part uses more fashintly. I know for a fact if you tried to change the way I type and then sent me back to the old way I type I would do better using the old system. Hth