We go over some alternative keymaps, colemak and dvorak and make a recommendation on which one is the best and if you should ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Although I’ve gone on the record as being a proud Dvorak user for over a decade, when it comes to touchscreen ...

IF you’re tired of typing on your iPhone you may be surprised to learn there’s a totally different keyboard that’s more comfortable. Not only that, it’s supposed to be much faster, but will take a bit ...

Tired of QWERTY? Starting with iOS 16—which launched last month—the Apple iPhone now supports the 86-year-old Dvorak keyboard layout natively. Previously, Dvorak typing aficionados needed to install a ...

If there is anything that I can do to make myself better and faster at typing, I’ll consider it. I’m a reasonably fast typist at 85-90 words per minute, but my job is to write, and my life is spent ...

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 ...

The Dvorak keyboard, which allows people who like Dvorak keyboards to type better, has found its way onto a MacBook courtesy of this simple copy-and-paste job on the physical keys. There are no ...

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% ...

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 ...

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...

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 ...