The research team of Antti Oulasvirta at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has created a new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices. They used ...

Do you have very big fingers? Many users have problems typing on their mobile phones because they have big fingers, which in turn causes inaccurate typing because the letters on the onscreen keyboard ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With a little practice, consistency, and some accessible tools, you can teach yourself to use the home row, type ...

This developer-focused keyboard changed how I typed ...

Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

My Dvorak keyboard layout experiment has come to an end. I received hundreds of comments across the three-part series and many more e-mails and tweets from interested or concerned readers. As promised ...

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers. The first typing machines had keyboards with an ...

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