Finally, the Dvorak keyboard was designed to minimize “hurdling,” which is the jumping of typing fingers from row to row. In one study, Dvorak (a distant cousin of composer Anton Dvorak ...

My Dvorak keyboard layout experiment has come to an end. I received hundreds of comments across the three-part series and many more e-mails and tweets from interested or concerned readers.

To this point, I have stuck without changing the physical keys on my keyboard layout, even though I need the hints more for Dvorak than I ever would for QWERTY. Maybe my progress would have been ...

Even so, Dvorak released his keyboard during the Depression, and hardly anyone could afford to buy a new typewriter just because there was some hot new layout.

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 ...

Patented by August Dvorak in 1936, the layout reduces finger motion by placing all vowels in the middle row on the left side of the keyboard and commonly-used consonants like R, S, T, N, and L on ...

1936: University of Washington education professor August Dvorak receives a patent for the keyboard that bears his name. The seed for a new layout was planted in Dvorak’s mind when he served as ...

The Dvorak keyboard layout was invented just for that reason. Instead of buying a new keyboard to try out this newer layout, why not just hack an old keyboard so that they keys use the Dvorak layout?

iPad owners who are used to the Dvorak layout may find it disappointing that the device does not yet have support for this keyboard layout. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been ...

The Dvorak layout (named after Dr. August Dvorak, not that Dvorak) was created to let people type faster. It places the most common used letters in the middle row and the least used keys on the ...

The Journal article doesn’t contest the alleged superiority of the Dvorak layout. That’s left to commenter Sam Homan, who links to the June 1996 article “ Typing Errors ” in Reason . According to that ...

zCover’s Dvorak Layout Keyboard Skin fixes that problem. It’s made of silicone rubber and designed to fit over Apple Keyboards and Apple Wireless Keyboards.