Dvorak
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keyboard layout for English
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- keyboard layout
- Named after
- August Dvorak
- Image
- Ideapad DVORAK.JPG
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- Commons category
- Dvorak keyboard layouts
- derivative work
- Bépo layout
- time of discovery or invention
- 1936-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- August Dvorak
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Encyclopedic overview
The modern Dvorak layout (U.S.)
Dvorak (/ˈdvɔːræk/ ) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. It was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, as a faster and more ergonomic alternative for typing English, compared to the 1874 QWERTY layout (the de facto standard keyboard layout). Dvorak proponents claim that it requires less finger motion and as a result reduces errors, increases typing speed, reduces repetitive strain injuries, or is simply more comfortable than QWERTY.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dvorak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.