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QWERTY is a keyboard layout where the first six keys appearing in the top left letter row of the keyboard read Q-W-E-R-T-Y from left to right.

QWERTY is a keyboard layout where the first six keys appearing in the top left letter row of the keyboard read from left to right: QWERTY.

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An Ideal Keyboard Layout for Programming

I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got…
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Are alternative keyboard layouts like Dvorak, Colemak, etc. better than QWERTY?

There are many alternative keyboards to the standard US keyboard layout (called QWERTY). Some examples include Dvorak, (and variants like Programmer Dvorak), Colemak, AZERTY, Workman layout, etc. Do any of these confer a benefit to typing speed,…
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Mac Style "Dvorak - Qwerty Command" keyboard mapping for Windows?

I would be interested in switching to Dvorak keyboard layout. The problem that everyone runs into is that common programming* keyboard shortcuts, such as: Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+Z Will no longer be the keys on the bottom left of the keyboard, since…
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Is it possible to be ambikeyboardrous?

I switched to the dvorak keyboard layout about a year ago. I now use dvorak full-time at work and at home. Recently, I went on vacation to Peru and found myself in quite a conundrum. Internet cafes were qwerty-only (and Spanish qwerty, at that). I…
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Determining how difficult a word is to type on a QWERTY keyboard

I'm looking for a reasonably simple algorithm to determine how difficult it is to type a word on the QWERTY layout. The words would not necessarily be dictionary words, so a list of commonly mistyped words or the like is not an option. I'm sure…
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How do you get the number keypad to come up in an iPhone web app?

On a web page that is to be displayed on an iPhone, is there a way to get the number pad to come up when the user taps in the field, instead of the qwerty keypad? This guy says here's how to do it, but as of 2.0, this "feature" was disabled. I'm…
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Mnemonic Password Generation Algorithm for QWERTY Keyboards

I've a "mnemonic" password generation function that goes something like this: function Mnemonic($mnemonic) { $result = null; $charset = array(str_split('aeiou', 1), str_split('bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz', 1)); for ($i = 1; $i <= $mnemonic;…
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Need number only soft keyboard?

Hi I need a soft keyboard with only numeric values 0 to 9 and Enter key. Shouldn't show anything other than these like . , ( ) etc... I tried several options as suggested here but nothings seems to work for…
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Detecting random keyboard hits considering QWERTY keyboard layout

The winner of a recent Wikipedia vandalism detection competition suggests that detection could be improved by "detecting random keyboard hits considering QWERTY keyboard layout". Example: woijf qoeoifwjf oiiwjf oiwj pfowjfoiwjfo oiwjfoewoh Is there…
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QWERTY vs Dvorak: Controlled studies?

Has anybody done a properly controlled study on typist speed between QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts? I am curious about whether people actually achieve significant speed improvements, but I've yet to read anything that is non-anecdotal. A…
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How could I detect if a character close to another character on a QWERTY keyboard?

I'm developing a spam detection system and have been alerted to find that it can't detect strings like this - "asdfsdf". My solution to this involves detecting if the previous keys were near the other keys on the keyboard. I am not getting the input…
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Can't configure VIM for Dvorak keymap

Could someone help me to configure Dvorak keymap for VIM? I want to configure my Dvorak keymap to work in VIM, but I want to leave QWERTY keys in navigation/visual mode. (hjkl for navigation and etc.). I have tried to add .vimrc file to my HOME…
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jquery causes keyboard to appear/disappear on android

I have a responsive web page that I want to reorder with jquery when going from one size to a smaller one. Everything is great except when I reorder an element (a DIV, for example) that has an input in it, like the search form: $( '#searchfrm'…
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allow users to switch between input languages inside a j2me java midlet keyboard qwerty E71 and such

We have a midlet that needs to allow the user to switch input languages on the fly (its a dictionary type app) between several languages (say English to Arabic etc). All was charming in the "old days" with the numeric keypad, we handled the input…
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can I rearrange the keys on a das keyboard from QWERTY to Dvorak?

I hate to ask this here, but many people on stackoverflow have talked about the Das. I want to get the version with the printed keys - and since they don't sell a printed key version already set up for Dvorak, I hoped to rearrange the keys…
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