Dvorak keyboard

[ dvawr-ak kee-bawrd ]

noun

1. a keyboard designed to facilitate typing speed by having the most frequently used characters on the home row, with all the vowels on the left side.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dvorak keyboard¹

1930–35; named after its inventor, August Dvorak, U.S. educational psychologist and professor of education (1894–1975)

Example Sentences

The Key’s layout was also a problem for me specifically because I use the Dvorak keyboard layout rather than QWERTY, which confused The Key’s default layout and caused the C key to register as a “J,” and the “V” to register as a “K.”

From The Verge

Consider the famous Navy study that demonstrated the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard.

From BBC

I don’t want to fundamentally change the way we type—I don’t have time to learn the Dvorak keyboard, and I suspect you don’t either.

From Slate

By the time another contributor started on about "the ergonomics and reduced key travel" of the alternative Dvorak keyboard, I had lost the will to concentrate.

From The Guardian

The typewriter was an old, standard Olympia—a German machine he'd refitted with the Dvorak keyboard which he had learned for greater efficiency.

From Project Gutenberg