Last week, I embarked on a quest to make my life more difficult—learning the Dvorak keyboard layout for the purposes of comfort and, possibly, even speed gains. The exercise could pay long-term ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

If you're still a member of the hunt-and-peck club, you can save time and increase your productivity by developing solid keyboard skills. In his "Tip o' the Week" blog, Ewan Dalton, who leads the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trying to learn dvorak without correctly labeled keys is like trying to learn qwerty with blank keys. Sure you could do it, but it's really helpful for a beginner to be able to look down and hit the ...