Qwerty vs DVORAK keyboard

Such persistence can be remarkably long-lived—the QWERTY keyboard, which has the letter layout inherited from typewriters, continues to dominate computer keyboards in spite of experiments performed by the U.S. Navy that show the Dvorak keyboard is 25–30% faster. That alternative keyboard arrangements are more efficient should not be surprising—the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow typing in order to reduce typewriter jamming.

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