QWERTY typists achieve barely half the speed of
Dvorak typists, who hold most world records for typing speed.
Dvorak typists began to sweep typing speed contests two years later, and they have held most typing records ever since.
QWERTY typists make about twice the errors that
Dvorak typists make.
Not exact matches
In a normal workday a good
typist's fingers cover up to 20 miles on a QWERTY keyboard, but only one mile on a
Dvorak keyboard.
When the U.S. Navy faced a shortage of trained
typists in World War II, it experimented with retraining QWERTY
typists to use
Dvorak.