Difference Between qwerty and Dvorak Keyboard
Dvorak Keyboard
The main difference between qwerty and dvorak are within the layout of the keys. Although Dvorak keyboard is probably easier to use, qwerty has been with us for a while (ever since 1870, to be precise) and people are still seeing it as the only option. The alternative layout was designed by August Dvorak in 1936 and his idea was to fight with typist’s fatigue. Dvorak explored typists’ psychology and created a layout where the key-strokes alternate between hands proportionally and where the most common words can be typed in an easier manner. However, his ideas never found much fans and now there are no more than 100,000 Dvorak keyboard users worldwide.
Apart from qwerty keyboards and Dworak keyboards there are other layouts in limited use. For example, in France, Belgium and other French-speaking countries some people tend to use azerty keyboard. It can be tricky for a qwerty person to use this azerty as some letters cannot be found in their usual places. The advocates of the French layout say that it makes it easier to type special French characters – and they really do have some special characters!
The most wide-spread cell phone keyboards are so called chorded keyboards when you need to press the same button twice or more times to get different characters. Chorded keyboards, apart from cell phones, are sometimes used in different industrial machines where there is limited space to fit in a qwerty keyboard.
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