The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 19th century. Aren't there other arrangements better fit for the computer age? They vary from radical changes to slight alterations.

It’s easy to imagine the pencil-and-paper process used by those early keyboard designers. Even in 2014, most English keyboards on most devices still use QWERTY, just because enough typists have ...

Christopher Sholes was primarily responsible for QWERTY, but it took years of tinkering to arrive at the layout we know today. The first model that Sholes built mimicked a piano keyboard, with the ...

The qwerty layout was DESIGNED purposely to slow (right-handed) typists to get around mechanical slowness, so it too was engineered and not “simply” an accident.

The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 1870s and it's still the most common layout used on keyboards today - but many people are still puzzled as to why ...

While everyone else learned touch typing on the common QWERTY layout, I sat at a terminal reserved for me that had a traffic-cone-orange silicone skin laid across the keyboard, showing the right ...

Decades of technology advances have not made a dent in QWERTY usage, a process baked deeply into users' psyches. Software-based touch screens may change that.

By April 1870, his keyboard resembled the modern QWERTY layout with four rows of keys and when Sholes' design was sold to Remington in 1873, it looked like this (on the right is today's layout): ...

Typing with just your left hand is fun, but using both is still more efficient at times.<BR><BR>So I began my hunt for a half-qwerty keyboard layout for Windows.

The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 19th century. Aren't there other arrangements better fit for the computer age? They vary from radical changes to slight alterations.