There's quite a bit of evidence that Dvorak improves typing speed and
comfort.
In the first place, the world record-holder for typing speed to this day is a
Dvorak user. Dvorak users, though a tiny minority of typists, have been
disproportionately represented among typing speed and
There's no evidence that using Dvorak actually improves typing speed or
comfort. Most keyboards are QWERTY. You're supposed to set the keyboard
layout based on what the printed characters on the keys actually say. So
QWERTY is the default choice that makes the most sense. Even QWERTZ and
When advocating for the (relatively) obscure GNU/Linux over Windows, free
software advocates often respond to the objection of "if it's so great, why
isn't it already market-dominant?" by pointing to the Dvorak keyboard layout
being superior to QWERTY as an example of how an objectively
