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 ...

To make an effective switch, one has to override muscle memory for using QWERTY layout for a long while. I started on my grandfather's "Underwood" typewriter when I was 7 and if I were to explore ...

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% ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

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 ...

Since iOS 16, the iPhone has natively supported the Dvorak keyboard layout, giving users an alternative to the default QWERTY layout. Dvorak was designed to make two-handed typing faster and more ...

Almost every computer keyboard in the English-speaking world uses the 19th-century QWERTY layout. You may not know that there’s an alternative: the Dvorak layout, which August Dvorak developed in 1936 ...

The iOS 16 has multiple support for various keyboard layouts including QWERTY, AZERTY, and QZERTY. However, many people do not know that the newest operating system also supports a very old layout on ...

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.

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 ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.