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Dvorak: August Dvorak
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In 1936, August Dvorak, a professor of statistics at University of Washington, proposed rearranging the keyboards alphabetic keys in a layout that is more equitable to the fingers. His design improved efficiency by placing common letters on the home row and ... making the stronger fingers do most of the work.
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DVORAK is a keyboard layout designed in the 1920's, named after its creator, August Dvorak. The keys are mapped so that commonly used letters in the English language, including all the vowels, are in the home row. Also, the letters are divided evenly between hands. In this way, your hands and fingers don't have to move much when typing. So basically, DVORAK is efficient and comfortable in English; whether it works just as well in other languages is unknown.
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It has ... been called the Simplified Keyboard or American Simplified Keyboard, but is commonly known as the Dvorak keyboard. It was designed by Drs. August Dvorak and William Dealey in the 1920s and 1930s. The two studied letter frequency and the physiology of the hand and created the layout to adhere to these principles:
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Some confusion regarding which of the keyboard layouts designed by August Dvorak is the "real" Dvorak layout. This arose in part due to the existence of, in addition to the standard layout, layouts for left-handed (only) and right-handed (only) use. Also, while Dvorak specified a particular layout for the number sequence at the top of the keyboard, most implementations of the Dvorak layout retain the ‘1,2,3...9,0’ arrangement: most people who want to type numbers quickly will use the numeric keypad rather than the top row.
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There are official, standard, left-handed and right-handed Dvorak keyboard layouts for use by single-handed typists, in addition to the two-handed Dvorak. AugustDvorak? ... created the two single-handed layouts. See: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/kb/layout/alphaSingle-c.html for more information about these two.
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