Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard's layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and ...

Lately, the momentum towards touchscreens and smartphones as primary computing devices has been overwhelming. As a result, there are fewer and fewer roles for the physical keyboard, though it's likely ...

For bold system builders and users, third-party keyboards now exist that can make up for Qwerty's drawbacks. Some condition the user to their improve touch-typing using Qwerty, while others dispense ...

A few years back I was at a convention somewhere and I stumbled into Palm's booth. They were showcasing a small half-qwerty keyboard. I was instantly in love, but didn't have the $$$ to drop on ...

Forget everything you ever learned from Mavis Beacon. Researchers have developed a new keyboard just for two-thumb typing, and it doesn’t start with QWERTY. For anyone who’s been frustrated with touch ...

The KALQ keyboard layout. Photo: Outlasvirta et al. In 2012, says the New York Times, “cellphone owners sent an average of 678 texts a month.” That’s a lot of messages, and we’re guessing at least ...

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... QWERTY Traveled From Typewriter To iPhone, But ...

Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout is commonly found on computers in the United States. It was first created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer. Now that you ...