Eventually, Apple Macintosh engineers built the functionality of this utility into the standard system software, along with a few layouts: QWERTY, Dvorak, French [AZERTY], and other foreign-language layouts.
The experiment used 2,700 students to learn the Dvorak layout, and the district found that the Dvorak pattern students learned the keyboard in one-third the time it took to learn QWERTY.
For example, some have claimed that switching from a QWERTY computer keyboard layout to a more optimised ergonomic layout such as Dvorak was commonly cited as beneficial in early CTS studies; however, some meta-analyses of these studies claim that the evidence that they present is limited.
This eliminates the burden of producing additional keymaps for every variant of QWERTY provided.
Hurdling is an awkward stroke requiring a single finger to jump directly from one row, over the home row to another row [e.g., typing "minimum" on the QWERTY keyboard].
Earlier versions, such as DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1, included four keyboard patterns: QWERTY, two-handed Dvorak, right-hand Dvorak, and left-hand Dvorak.
In the English language, there are about 1,200 words that require a hurdle on the QWERTY layout.
The QWERTY layout has more than 3,000 words that are typed on the left hand alone and about 300 words that are typed on the right hand alone [the aforementioned word "minimum" is a right-hand-only word].
Many new hand-held devices come equipped with a QWERTY keyboard and/or a touch-sensitive screen, as well as handwriting recognition which significantly increases typing speed.
He knows his way around the qwerty.
By keeping familiar keyboard shortcuts like "close" or "copy" on the same keys as ordinary QWERTY, this lets some people use their well-practiced muscle memory and may make the transition easier.
The often cited example is the QWERTY keyboard, specifically designed to overcome operative limitations on the mechanical typewriter but now almost universally preferred over other keyboard designs.
Blackburn, who failed her QWERTY typing class in high school, first encountered the Dvorak keyboard in 1938, quickly learned to achieve very high speeds, and occasionally toured giving speed-typing demonstrations during her secretarial career.
Because the Dvorak layout concentrates the vast majority of key strokes to the home row, the Dvorak layout uses about 63% of the finger motion required by QWERTY, which is claimed to make the keyboard more ergonomic.
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Hence, non-QWERTY-derived keyboards for such languages would need a keyboard pattern that might be quite different from the Dvorak pattern for English.
Furthermore, all current Unix-like systems with X.Org and appropriate keymaps installed [and virtually all systems meant for desktop use include them] are able to use any QWERTY-labeled keyboard as a Dvorak one without any problems or additional configuration.