Dvorak keyboard

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Dvo·rak keyboard

 (dvôr′ăk)
n.
A keyboard with a layout designed to increase the speed and ease of typing, having a home row of keys that consist of A, O, E, U, I, D, H, T, N, and S.
[After August Dvorak (1894-1975), American educator.]
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The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, or Dvorak for short, was introduced in the 1930s and was carefully engineered to overcome QWERTY's many shortcomings.
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Navy conducted a study during World War II, and concluded that typists using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) would amortize the costs of switching within the first ten days, by virtue of the 20-40% increased typing speed offered by the DSK.
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Fast forward now to 1936, when August Dvorak, a professor at the University of Washington, patented the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. Dvorak claimed to have experimental evidence that his keyboard provided advantages of greater speed, reduced fatigue, and easier learning.
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