Editing Alternative keyboard layouts (section)

=== Dvorak ===
{{infobox layout
| name       = Dvorak
| image name = Dvorak-Caps-BS-Swap-Layout.PNG
<!-- Dvorak Layout w/ Caps/BS swap on a 60% keyboard -->
| creator    = August Dvorak and William L Dealey
| introduced = 1936 (Typewriter)<br>1982 (ANSI)
| top row    = ',.PY FGCRL
| middle row = AOEUI DHTNS
| bottom row = ;QJKX BMWVZ
| patents    = [https://www.google.com/patents/US2040248 US2040248] (1936)
}}

Dvorak was created by Dr. August Dvorak in the early 1930's as an alternative to the QWERTY layout. Data was gathered in the form of closeup films of a typist fingers to create a primitive heat-map of key use and hand position.

*The most common letters were roughly placed in the rows typists were thought to like best: home-row, top-row and last bottom-row.
*Hand-alternation: To avoid occasional long strings of one-handed-operation, emphasis was placed on hand-alternation. All vowels were moved to the left side of the keyboard, and onto the home-row, including the rare U.
*The right-hand is favored and receives 14% more usage than the lefty, which is 33% more than ''QWERTY'' because it favors the left hand with a similar percentage.<!--Probably erroneous math here, feel free to remove at will-->

Criticisms of the Dvorak design:

*Extreme dissimilarity from ''QWERTY''. System and application hotkeys that are designed around QWERTY will need to be relearned or remapped
*Hand-alternation. Poor single handed typing speed
*Poor placement of common letters. L is a case-example of this
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