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	Dvorak Keyboard
		One may purchase a Dvorak keyboard, but a cost-free alternative is simply to use software that comes with many operating systems that allows instant reassignment of the QWERTY keys to the Dvorak configuration.
		And that measure does not take into account other features of the Dvorak keyboard such as its propensity to alternate hands since all the vowels are on the left side of the home row and there is a tendency in English for vowels and consonants to alternate within words.
		Keyboard configuration, evidently, is intimately bound to self-perpetuating social convention, and the problem of inertia, which has cost us dearly in lost opportunities for ameliorating physical and economic harms, must be solved socially.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~sander/mensa/dvorak1.html (2297 words)

	The Dvorak Keyboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dvorak found that it took an average of only 52 hours of training for those typists' speeds on the Dvorak keyboard to reach their average speeds on the qwerty keyboard.
		Dvorak attributed the increase in accuracy to the fact that on keyboard, that the most common digraphs (two-letter combinations, such as "ed") in English would occur with a minimum of "hurdling" (having to jump over a key as if it were a hurdle), and would use stronger fingers rather than weaker ones.
		Dvorak estimated that the fingers of an average typist in his day travelled between 12 and 20 miles on a qwerty keyboard; the same text on a Dvorak keyboard would require only about one mile of travel.
	www.mit.edu /people/jcb/Dvorak (1669 words)

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		In discussing the background of the Dvorak keyboard and prior to introducing the results of the study, the report claims: ''Indisputably, it is obvious that the Simplified Keyboard is easier to master than the Standard Keyboard.".
		The Dvorak keyboard does a good job on these variables, especially A and B: 67% of the typing is done on the home row and the left-right hand balance is 47-53%.
		Although the Sholes (Qwerty) keyboard fails at conditions A and B (most typing is done on the top row and the balance between the two hands is 57% and 43%), the policy to put successively typed keys as far apart as possible favors factor C, thus leading to relatively rapid typing.
	www.utdallas.edu /~liebowit/keys1.html (9958 words)

	Make Mine Dvorak - One writer's love affair with the other keyboard layout. By Nicholas Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dvorak took advantage of this by placing all the vowels together in the middle on the left and putting the most common consonants on the right in the middle and top rows.
		Dvorak users also move their fingers about 35 percent less than Qwerty users, and according to one neat little study, Dvorak can cut the finger movement to type our dozen most common words by 75 percent.
		Dvorak himself had conducted the studies, he hadn't used equally capable subjects on the boards, and he had a financial stake in the outcome.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2061547 (2042 words)

	The Dvorak Keyboard -- a Primer
		The Qwerty keyboard was designed in the 1870s to accommodate the slow mechanical movement of early typewriters.
		There were several variations in the Dvorak's design in its first few decades, but these were settled when the American National Standards Institute approved a standard for the layout of the Dvorak in 1982.
		Dvorak (Univ. of Washington, Seattle; b.1894, d.1975) used his research to design two other keyboards specifically for people with only one hand (one each for the right and left), which allow people with the use of just one hand to type very easily and efficiently -- at speeds up to 50 wpm.
	www.dvorak-keyboard.com (941 words)

	Dvorak Keyboard
		Dvorak did suprisingly well and, unlike the Maltron keyboard or a set of data-hands (Hi, JD), Dvorak is trivially implemented with current hardware on almost every computing platform.
		I now use Dvorak everywhere but the VT. Learning was fun, especially as I went from only being able to do one or the other on certain machines where I had practiced to being able to switch back on forth on demand.
		Note the ANSI standard Dvorak layout is amazingly annoying because of its placement of the {, }, [, and ] characters.
	www.cs.brown.edu /~scs/dv.html (865 words)

	The Dvorak Keyboard and You
		The Dvorak keyboard layout was created in the 1930s by Dr. August Dvorak, a professor at the University of Washington, and William L. Dealey, his brother-in-law.
		Dvorak was a Commander in the Navy reserve at the time but did not organize, conduct, or participate in the study in any way.
		And though Dvorak was officially recognized by ANSI in November 1982 and the number of Dvorak users rocketed from 5,000 in 1982 to 100,000 in 1984, the furor died down.
	www.theworldofstuff.com /dvorak (3872 words)

	Reason magazine -- June 1996
		It is frequently claimed that the keyboard was actually configured to reduce typing speed, since that would have been one way to avoid the jamming of the typewriter.
		After completing 83 hours on the new keyboard, we are told that the typing speed for this group had increased to an average of 56 net words per minute, a 75 percent increase.
		It unreservedly concluded that retraining typists on Dvorak was inferior to retraining on QWERTY.
	reason.com /9606/Fe.QWERTY.shtml (5420 words)

	Anti-Dvorak Crusaders
		While I agree that Dvorak's slow acceptance may not be a good example of why markets can't be "trusted," L&M first slander "Typewriting Behavior", the 1936 book by Dvorak, et al., presenting the keyboard's design as "a late-night television infomercial rather than scientific work".
		L&M say that "the advent of computer keyboards, which can easily be reprogrammed,...lowers the cost of converting to Dvorak to essentially zero" (true, yes), but "few computer users have adopted the Dvorak keyboard." May I inquire as to the whereabouts of their "high standard", statistically valid study to support this statement?
		L&M close with "the story of Dvorak's superiority is a myth or, perhaps more properly, a hoax." Concluding that there is some sort of conspiracy afoot among the obviously grass-roots 60-year support for the Dvorak is paranoia, not academic theory.
	www.dvorak-keyboard.com /dvorak2.html (770 words)

	The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dvorak solved this problem by putting the vowels (which comprise 40% of all typing) on the left hand side of the keyboard, and the major consonants that go along with those vowels on the right hand side.
		However, when Dvorak's students began winning with quite superior scores, there was no mention that they had used the DSK, only that they had used a machine produced by such-and-such manufacturer (after all, the real purpose of the contests was to prove the superiority of each manufacturer's machines, not the keyboard used on those machines).
		With no DSK typists in the contests, the performances on the standard keyboard were so dismal (at least one contestant won a third place with a zero net score) that they did not bother to announce the winning scores of each winner at the awards ceremony, as had been the case in previous years.
	infohost.nmt.edu /~shipman/ergo/parkinson.html (5748 words)

	The Dvorak Keyboard
		During the 1930s, an early human-factors specialist named Dr. August Dvorak observed that the arrangement of keys on typewriters was a barrier to efficient typing.
		During the 1950s, a personal rivalry between Dvorak and another typewriting expert fouled the project and prevented the Navy from adopting Dvorak as its standard keyboard.
		One such device was the Maltron keyboard, from a British inventor, which appeared in the late 1970s.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~shuford/terminal/dvorak_advice.html (867 words)

	SHIAR Homepage :: The Dvorak Keyboard
		Dvorak is a keyboard layout is an alternative to the ancient standard QWERTY.
		The qwerty (Sholes) keyboard was designed to prevent the keys from jamming in typewriters, which is obviously not needed anymore with modern keyboards.
		Dvorak's disadvantages are only temporarily: as soon as more people start using it, they will disappear.
	www.shiar.org /happy/txts/dvorak.php (1584 words)

	Dvorak Keyboard Layouts
		There are three Dvorak layouts: one for two-handed users, one for people who type only with their left hand, and one for people who type only with their right hand.
		Dvorak keyboard layouts are based on designs created by Dr. August Dvorak, a professor at the University of Washington during the 1930s and 1940s.
		To disable the United States (U.S.) Dvorak keyboard layout for MS-DOS, open the Autoexec.bat file (with a text editor such as MS-DOS Editor), delete the line with the KEYB command, save the file, and restart your computer.
	support.microsoft.com /support/kb/articles/Q95/1/41.asp (3482 words)

	Dvorak Keyboard Observations - Narrative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After the first two months of using the Dvorak layout, my fingers were still strongly attached to the old system, but in that comparatively short time I had reached the point where continuing with the new layout made more sense than turning back.
		Interest was kindled by the idea you have a choice between a keyboard designed to be awkward, and one that has been greatly improved.
		She typed at a speed of 170 wpm using the Dvorak keyboard (she has since slowed down some - to a mere 150 wpm).
	sominfo.syr.edu /facstaff/dvorak/narativ1.html (672 words)

	US Qwerty and Dvorak Keyboard Layouts
		For our US Qwerty, Dvorak and International Layouts, most keys are about the same size (19mm X 19mm) as those on a full-sized mechanical keyboard.
		The DVORAK key layout was carefully designed by August Dvorak in the 1930's and became an ANSI standard in 1982.
		Is Dvorak an Urban Legend: The Fable of the Fable by MW Brooks
	www.fingerworks.com /layouts.html (933 words)

	Dvorak Keyboards
		By reducing finger travel distances for keystrokes, the Dvorak keyboard reportedly has the effect of increasing typing speed while reducing the risk of repetitive strain injuries.
		Fentek now offers a Dvorak keyboard with the layouts which match the Dvorak layouts found within your Windows software (This keyboard is not hardwired but will require you to reconfigure your software for the Dvorak layout).
		Keyboard dimensions are 18 inches wide by 8 inches deep by 2 1/4 inches high.
	www.fentek-ind.com /dvorak.htm (603 words)

	Dvorak Keyboard
		In 1914 William Dealey and his brother-in-law August Dvorak (a distant cousin of composer Antonin Dvorak) began to study typing.
		The Dvorak keyboard puts all the vowels on the home row of the left hand (except "Y" which is above "I") and the most used consonants on the home row of the right hand.
		Thousands of words can be typed on the home row of the Dvorak keyboard; only a couple dozen can be typed on the home row of QWERTY.
	www.mindspring.com /~mccarthys/dennis/dvorak.htm (910 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dvorak keyboard layout for about a year now.
		And it quickly became clear that putting the vowels on the home row of the left hand, which is a cornerstone concept of the Dvorak layout, was not seen by the algorithm as optimal.
		Other differences from Dvorak are not that profound, and seem to correlate pretty well with a simple letter frequency analysis.
	www.visi.com /~pmk/evolved.html (2253 words)

	SHIAR Homepage :: non-us Dvorak keyboard layouts
		This is why it's useful to adapt the standard dvorak layout sligtly, to optimize it for a specific language.
		Either way, dvorak is the clear winner, in particular the modified spanish version, which keeps over 70% of your keypresses on the home row, and under 10% on the bottom row.
		Afaik most germans always use accented characters when their keyboard has those, but it may still be useful as a us keyboard comparison.
	www.shiar.org /happy/txts/dvoraklv.php (2034 words)

	Joe's Dvorak Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The original mechanical keyboards kept jamming for two reasons: people typed too fast, and keys which were often used close together were located near each other (and so the print heads would collide).
		Both causes were treated by the design of the QWERTY keyboard: it spreads out commonly-used key combinations, and it slows you down.
		I typed on a QWERTY layout for years at about 50 words per minute before I decided to learn Dvorak, and it was only a matter of weeks before my Dvorak rate matched or exceeded my QWERTY rate.
	www.strout.net /info/dvorak/intro.html (416 words)

	Dvorak Keyboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1936, efficiency experts August Dvorak and William Dealey studied the typewriter to determine that they could arrange the keys in a new way which would speed up the operators of the typewriter.
		The layout that they created is called the DVORAK keyboard named after one of its' inventors.
		This Java area is dedicated to the teaching of this improved keyboard layout by allowing anyone on the web to try out the Dvorak keyboard arrangement.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /knghtowl/java.html (371 words)

	Dvorak Keyboard - Steve
		According to Jared Diamond, it takes a beginning QWERTY typist 56 hours of typing to reach 40 wpm (which is a respectable typing speed)....
		It took me 20 hours, to switch over from Qwerty to Dvorak, and I have been very happy with the switch.
		This was the article that convinced me to switch keyboard layouts, and it just might be the article that frees your fingers from the shackles and chains of inconvenient typing.
	www.geocities.com /malibu_malv (565 words)

	The Switchable Dvorak, Qwerty Keyboard*
		Welcome to the DvortyBoards.com online store, where you will find switchable, hardwired Dvorak/Qwerty computer keyboards, designed to support your ergonomic keyboarding needs at a price you can afford.
		These advanced keyboards allow you to easily switch from the inefficient and exhausting Qwerty format to the efficient and comfortable Dvorak format.
		This is the keyboard for the New Millenium!
	www.dvortyboards.com (201 words)

	Computer Keyboards
		Fentek Industries, Inc. is your single source for custom, standard, programmable, wireless, and ergonomic computer keyboards, computer keys, specialized keys and keysets, custom printed keytops, keycaps, keyboard templates, keytop and keyfront overlay labels, membrane graphics, large print and assistive keyboards, language keytop overlays and International language keyboards, keyboard accessories, keyboard protectors, and custom keyboard modifications.
		This Mouse eliminates mouse induced stress on the delicate hand-wrist area by moving mouse control to the feet.
		-Conforming to the trend of miniaturization, these full function keyboards have full size keys, but models are available that are as small as 11.6 inches by 4.3 inches in size for significant desktop space savings and briefcase portability.
	www.fentek-ind.com (381 words)

	ABCD: A Basic Course in Dvorak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Dvorak Keyboard is a major improvement over the QWERTY layout, which was designed to slow people's typing speed!
		I have been interested in the Dvorak keyboard layout for some time, but never was able to find a typing tutor that properly taught this layout.
		The Dvorak Keyboard is not a separate keyboard.
	gigliwood.com /abcd (381 words)

	Introducing the Dvorak Keyboard -- Layout Diagram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Then open the PDF directly from Acrobat Reader.
		The arrangement shown here is common to most Mac, DOS/Windows, and OS/2 Dvorak layouts, but it is not strictly ANSI standard Dvorak.
		ANSI places both square brackets on the same key (requiring a shift for one), omits curly brackets (which usually end up both on the same key too), and leaves the +/= key on the topmost row.
	www.mwbrooks.com /dvorak/layout.html (155 words)

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