Quote:Altay, exactly how is that keyboard any easier ???
And I assume that you reassinged the values of the keys as well

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Well, basically, when Sholes invented the typewriter it would mess up every now and then if someone typed too quickly. Soon after people started using the typewriter they started using all 10 fingers to type. Sholes had never intended for people to type with all 10 fingers, just the two index fingers. This caused keyboards to jam easily, so Sholes developed a keyboard to solve this. What it did was it bunched up common letters so that if someone was using 10 fingers to type, they'd have to commonly use the same finger to type many letters consecutively (I
think this is how it works, though I'm still not totally sure). Anyhow, this keyboard is commonly known as the "qwerty" keyboard (take a look at the top left six letters on your keyboard to see why). It is the standard keyboard. Dvorak decided to make a keyboard on the opposite basis, to make ten finger typing easier and to slow down two finger typers. He called his keyboard "The Simplified Keyboard" though today it's better known as the "Dvorak keyboard". It has the ten most common letters on the home row so that there is a high probability that the letter you need to type will be on the home row. (the home row is: aoeuidhtns [good to know for hangman

]). The Dvorak keyboard is easier to make than you probably think. Go into control panel --> Regional and Language Options --> Languages --> Details --> Add. Then choose to add English with keyboard layout "dvorak". Then you can either set it to default (what I did) or if you just want to mess with it leave Qwerty as default. That's the short answer. If you want the long answer, go to
http://www.dvorak-keyboards.com/ and browse the site for details/answers to your questions.
This should answer your question in better detail:
http://www.dvorak-keyboards.com/Dvorak_keyboard_why_it_works.htmBy the way, the world's fastest typist uses Dvorak:
http://sominfo.syr.edu/facstaff/dvorak/blackburn.html