About six months ago, Kenneth D’Souza of Danbury, Conn., decided to teach himself to type. But he rejected the idea of learning the standard keyboard layout — commonly known as “Qwerty,” after the ...

Perhaps I type improperly, but I haven't used my pinky finger to type a single letter in this entire sentence on a QWERTY layout keyboard. As best I can tell, this is the same position as the "L" on ...

A crafty MacBook owner has gone through the tedious act of switching his MacBook’s QWERTY keyboard for the Dvorak layout. The Dvorak layout (named after Dr. August Dvorak, not that Dvorak) was created ...

Colemak puts the 'F' just above your left middle finger. That's in the 'E' spot for all your QWERTY people. So next time you find yourself overly frustrated with Dvorak's F, just think, hey, I could ...

Have you ever wondered why the keyboard you are using right now has the characters laid out in that particular order? The standard keyboard layout is called the Qwerty layout, and was designed around ...

iOS 16 adds native support for the Dvorak keyboard layout on the iPhone, providing users with an alternative to the standard QWERTY layout. Dvorak was designed to make two-handed typing faster and ...

One of the strangest things about human nature is our tendency toward inertia. We take so much uncontrollable change in stride, but when our man-made constructs stop making sense, we’re suddenly stuck ...

A keyboard layout designed in the 1930s by August Dvorak, University of Washington, and his brother-in-law, William Dealey. Almost 70% of all English words are typed on the home row compared to 32% ...

[BiOzZ] wanted to try a different keyboard layout than the ubiquitous Qwerty, so he grabbed an old keyboard and converted it to the Dvorak setup. This was accomplished by first popping off all of the ...

Reader Jane Kerns has a bone to pick with Microsoft in regard to her favorite keyboard layout. She writes: I have used the Dvorak keyboard layout for close to 30 years. I also use Microsoft Word 2011.

Our previous post about a MacBook Dvorak keyboard mod generated a number of comments, including hearty suggestions from several our readers to try the Dvorak keyboard layout. Now desktop users of the ...

Changing your Mac to support the Dvorak keyboard layout is as easy as switching a system preference, but that doesn’t change the letters printed on the keys themselves. That’s where zCover’s new ...