If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard's layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and ...

It has been around since the 1870s - but many people still have no idea why we use QWERTY keyboards. Originally, early typewriters used an alphabetical arrangement but newspaper editor Christopher ...

If you find you are all fingers and thumbs when it comes to typing on a touch-screen device, then help may be at hand. A team including Scots researchers have reimagined the old QWERTY layout – a ...

There is no shortage of startups attacking the virtual keyboard space, as you’d expect with so much scope to improve the experience of touchscreen typing. Yesterday Toronto-based Whirlscape launched a ...

, based in Singapore, has a fantastic looking keyboard for those of you who find QWERTY keyboard layouts tedious and unnatural The ABkey offers an alphabetical layout, with all the common keys in and ...

The QWERTY keyboard has puzzled many since its invention in the 1870s, but there's indeed a method to its seemingly random configuration. Initially featuring an alphabetical setup, newspaper editor ...