In 1936, August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, patented an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard, the standard keyboard used all over the world ...

A new keyboard for tablet computers promises to speed up typing by a third - by ditching the traditional QWERTY layout. Researchers at St Andrews University and Germany's Max Planck institute used ...

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 ...

I’m Craig MacCormack and I’m a professional journalist who can’t type properly. I took a typing class in high school and I’ve been writing articles professionally for almost 25 years now and I still ...

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers. The first typing machines had keyboards with an ...

A new keyboard called KALQ, created by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, University of Montana, and the University of St. Andrews, enables users to thumb-type on touchscreen ...

For bold system builders and users, third-party keyboards now exist that can make up for Qwerty's drawbacks. Some condition the user to their improve touch-typing using Qwerty, while others dispense ...

Americans commonly use the QWERTY keyboard, thus named for the first six letter keys in the top left of the keyboard, but it's not the only kind of keyboard.

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 ...