Quote - BTW, I find it difficult to imagine that of the billions of possibilities (limiting to four or less horizontal rows of keys), QWERTY is the "worst solution for a keyboard layout".  Placing the least used keys at the extremities where they are struck with weaker and less dextrous fingers seems logical to me.  Spend a while with DVORAK and report back.  Does moving a couple of vowels to the home row really change the world?

Klebnor

Dvorak is miles faster. Just is. You can almost double your typing speed by learning it. I know a couple of legal secretaries who type upwards of 120 wpm with Dvorak. But it takes a bit of effort to learn after years of typing QWERTY.

QWERTY was developed because typists on manual typewriters using the much more rational original layout were typing so fast that the keys were jamming. So QWERTY was a way to slow down their speed (put the most commonly used letters in the left hand, for instance). So it's not the worst. It's just not designed for modern keyboards.

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