No matter what generation you’re from, what year you were born, we all learned to type practically the same way – on some variant of the keyboard that stemmed from the original, spaced keys of the ...

History | Updated: February 25, 2025 | Originally Published: May 3, 2013 The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate. Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, ...

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 ...

New Delhi, April 19: Texting just got a lot easier! Researchers claim to have developed a new keyboard for touchscreens that allows superfast thumb-typing, enabling you to type 34 per cent faster than ...

It isn't easy to type "QWERTY" on a qwerty keyboard. My left-hand little finger holds the shift key, then the other fingers of my left hand clumsily crab sideways across the upper row. Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

The latest smartphones are sleek, beautiful masterpieces with nary a bezel between your hand and the phone. They’re slim, minimalist, and stylish, but there’s no denying the fact that a lot of us miss ...

If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

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 ...

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 ...