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 ...

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...

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The QWERTY keyboard has puzzled many since its invention in the 1870s, but there's indeed a method to its seemingly random configuration. Initially featuring an alphabetical setup, newspaper editor ...

Tired of QWERTY? Starting with iOS 16—which launched last month—the Apple iPhone now supports the 86-year-old Dvorak keyboard layout natively. Previously, Dvorak typing aficionados needed to install a ...

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 ...