I didn't really learn to properly type until 10th grade. Every day for a semester we'd come to the tech lab and sit in silence for 40 minutes with cardboard shields over our hands, copying exercises ...

If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

Sarah is a freelance writer and CNET How To blogger. Her main focus is Windows, but she also covers everything from mobile tech to video games to DIY hardware projects. She likes to press buttons and ...

Colemak puts the 'F' just above your left middle finger. That's in the 'E' spot for all your QWERTY people. So next time you find yourself overly frustrated with Dvorak's F, just think, hey, I could ...

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 ...