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 ...

August Dvorak (1894-1975) dedicated his life to destroying the keyboard that you are almost certainly using right now. He hated the design that put the letters “QWERTY” in the upper left, scattered ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With a little practice, consistency, and some accessible tools, you can teach yourself to use the home row, type ...

One of the strangest things about human nature is our tendency toward inertia. We take so much uncontrollable change in stride, but when our man-made constructs stop making sense, we’re suddenly stuck ...

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 ...