Typing could have evolved very differently, and these layouts are the evidence.

"Fingers on the home row!" Those words were drilled into us every single day in basic keyboarding class in high school. What is the "home row," you may wonder? Well, knowing the "home row" is the ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

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 ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder why we all use the same inefficient keyboard layout? QWERTY wasn’t built for comfort or speed, it was built for typewriters… in the 1870s. Keeping common letter pairs ...