We go over some alternative keymaps, colemak and dvorak and make a recommendation on which one is the best and if you should ...

If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

I didn't really learn to properly type until 10th grade. Every day for a semester we'd come to the tech lab and sit in silence for 40 minutes with cardboard shields over our hands, copying exercises ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...

As computers take over more and more of our lives, it behooves almost every one of us to be able to touch-type. It’s not essential to our existence, but it sure does make some tasks MUCH easier. Most ...

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 ...

Perhaps I type improperly, but I haven't used my pinky finger to type a single letter in this entire sentence on a QWERTY layout keyboard. As best I can tell, this is the same position as the "L" on ...

My Dvorak keyboard layout experiment has come to an end. I received hundreds of comments across the three-part series and many more e-mails and tweets from interested or concerned readers. As promised ...