{"id":59,"date":"2006-03-16T00:33:38","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2006\/03\/16\/the-next-keyboard-wont-feature-the-qwerty-layout\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:35:42","slug":"the-next-keyboard-wont-feature-the-qwerty-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2006\/03\/16\/the-next-keyboard-wont-feature-the-qwerty-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"The next keyboard wont feature the QWERTY layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my surfing I&#8217;ve come across a cool idea about how to improve typing efficiency- change the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently a professor with the last name Dvorak (nothing to do with the Tech TV guy) came up with a better keyboard layout.<\/p>\n<p>This site shows the benefits of the dvorak keyboard and how to switch to it.  I&#8217;m tempted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Remember when you took those typing classes, probably in high school? You got to do drills with such words as &#8220;fff&#8221;, &#8220;jjj&#8221;, &#8220;jkl;&#8221;. Added to the awkward physical motions Qwerty requires, these &#8220;nonsense words&#8221; are counter-intuitive, making Qwerty very hard to learn. On Dvorak, the keys on the home row make up literally thousands of words (we have a list of nearly 5000 from one electronic dictionary alone!), meaning you could have typed real words on your first day of typing class&#8230; <\/em><em>if you had learned on a Dvorak keyboard. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tags]Dvorak keyboard, keyboard, typing[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my surfing I&#8217;ve come across a cool idea about how to improve typing efficiency- change the keyboard. Apparently a professor with the last name Dvorak (nothing to do with the Tech TV guy) came up with a better keyboard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}