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Dvorak keyboard

[ dvawr-ak kee-bawrd ]

noun

  1. a keyboard designed to facilitate typing speed by having the most frequently used characters on the home row, with all the vowels on the left side.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Dvorak keyboard1

1930–35; named after its inventor, August Dvorak, U.S. educational psychologist and professor of education (1894–1975)
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The Key’s layout was also a problem for me specifically because I use the Dvorak keyboard layout rather than QWERTY, which confused The Key’s default layout and caused the C key to register as a “J,” and the “V” to register as a “K.”

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Consider the famous Navy study that demonstrated the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard.

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I don’t want to fundamentally change the way we type—I don’t have time to learn the Dvorak keyboard, and I suspect you don’t either.

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By the time another contributor started on about "the ergonomics and reduced key travel" of the alternative Dvorak keyboard, I had lost the will to concentrate.

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The typewriter was an old, standard Olympia—a German machine he'd refitted with the Dvorak keyboard which he had learned for greater efficiency.

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