According to the (somewhat dubious) authority of the Guiness Book of World Records, the fastest sustained typing speed is 150wpm, by Barbara Blackburn using a DVORAK layout, with peaks up to 170wpm. read more
No. QWERTY suffers from no defects sufficient to motivate a wholesale change. Despite the mythology surrounding competing designs such as Dvorak, no other layout is materially superior. read more
The Dvorak layout was designed to replace the QWERTY keyboard pattern (the de facto standard keyboard layout, so named for the starting letters in the top row). The Dvorak pattern was designed with the belief that it would significantly increase typing speeds with respect to the QWERTY layout. read more
The Dvorak keyboard is an ergonomic alternative to the layout commonly found on typewriters and computers known as “Qwerty”. The Qwerty keyboard was designed in the 1870s to accommodate the slow mechanical movement of early typewriters. read more