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  2. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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    Compute! magazine's review in 1989 supports the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. [14] Amiga Format's Paul Tyrrell praised its user-friendly design. [10] Nick Veitch of CU Amiga noted that the program was more interesting than traditional educational packages. [10] Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Version 5 was described as a "well-polished program" by ...

  3. Dvorak keyboard layout - Wikipedia

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    The modern Dvorak layout (U.S.) Dvorak / ˈ d v ɔːr æ k / ⓘ [1] is a keyboard layout for English patented in 1936 by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, as a faster and more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY layout (the de facto standard keyboard layout).

  4. One-hand typing - Wikipedia

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    The idea is to only use one hand (preferably the left one) and type the right-hand letters by holding a key which acts as a modifier key.The layout is mirrored, so the use of the muscle memory of the other hand is possible, which greatly reduces the amount of time needed to learn the layout, if the person previously used both hands to type.

  5. Typing - Wikipedia

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    Person typing on a laptop keyboard Video of typing on a notebook computer keyboard. Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, mobile phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition. Text can be in the form of ...

  6. Text entry interface - Wikipedia

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    There are a number of different keyboard layouts available: QWERTY is the standard English-language keyboard layout, as the first six keys on the row of letters are Q, W, E, R, T and Y. Other keyboards layouts include AZERTY and Dvorak. The AZERTY keyboard is a variation of the standard QWERTY keyboard adapted for French-language input.

  7. ISO/IEC 9995 - Wikipedia

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    ISO/IEC 9995 Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and office systems is an ISO/IEC standard series defining layout principles for computer keyboards. It does not define specific layouts but provides the base for national and industry standards which define such layouts.

  8. Touch typing - Wikipedia

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    Competitive typist Albert Tangora demonstrating his typing in 1938. Touch typing (also called blind typing, or touch keyboarding) is a style of typing.Although the phrase refers to typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys—specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory—the term is often used to refer to a specific form of touch ...

  9. Arrow keys - Wikipedia

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    WASD (,AOE on Dvorak keyboards; ZQSD on AZERTY keyboards) is a set of four keys on a QWERTY or QWERTZ computer keyboard that mimic the inverted-T configuration of the arrow keys. These keys are most commonly used to control the player character's movement in computer games.