Who’s got two thumbs and loves Dvorak?
, when it comes to touchscreen keyboards I’ve always been happy with QWERTY. The main benefit of Dvorak is the way it shares the workload equally between all of your fingers when touch-typing. It places all the vowels on the left side of the keyboard’s home row, and all the most commonly-used consonants are on the right, making them quicker and easier to reach.
But on a smartphone keyboard you’re not using all your fingers, you’re only typing with your thumbs. And, if anything, I think that makes it helpful that QWERTY weirdly spaces out all the most commonly used letters. Less chance for thumb clash, you know?Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge As you can see from the screenshot at the top of this story, the Dvorak layout looks a little odd on iOS because of the missing keys on the top left of the keyboard. That’s because those normally handle punctuation which the iPhone keyboard hides away in a sub-menu. After trying to use it for five minutes I think I’m going to stick to QWERTY, but feel free to give it a go if you’ve got more patience.
notes that the Apple co-founder has used the layout for around thirty years, after learning Dvorak from on a flight to Tokyo in the early 90s. “I spent 5 hours learning it and never again looked at a QWERTY keyboard,” he toldApple has long supported the Dvorak layout on Mac computers with a simple software toggle, but, as pointed out by
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