What is a DVORAK keyboard, compared to a QWERTY?
QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on most English language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six letters seen in the keyboard’s top row of letters. The QWERTY design was patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873, when it first appeared in typewriters. The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard is a keyboard layout designed by Dr. August Dvorak and William Dealey in the 1920s and 1930s as an alternative to the more common QWERTY layout. Dvorak and Dealey studied letter frequencies and the physiology of the hand and created the layout to adhere to these principles: – It is easier to type letters alternating between hands. – For maximum speed and efficiency, the most common letters and digraphs should be the easiest to type. This means that they should be on the home row, which is where the fingers rest. – Likewise, the least common letters should be on the bottom row, which is the hardest row to reach. – The right hand s
