What does "asdf" mean? I wonder if it's an expletive.

[Chan790]

4. I have a Dvorak keyboard I don't use regularly.

It's great for f**king with typists who have never seen one before. The question most often asked is "what's the purpose of that?" and the answer is actually pretty simple.

QWERTY and AZERTY keyboards were designed in a different era, the era of the manual typewriter, and the keys are laid out with a purpose other than the fastest typing possible in-mind; they're laid out to prevent typebar jams--the keys are laid out to slow users down to a speed where one key will be returned to initial position before the next is struck and also to minimize scenarios were adjacent letters in a word would be adjacent typebars.

With the advent of electric typewriters and word-processing, these concerns no longer existed. So two scientists, Dr. August Dvorak and Dr. William Dealey, set out to design a key-layout that would instead emphasize speed, accuracy and comfort for the typist. Too bad it never caught on. A properly-trained and experienced Dvorak typist is much faster than even the fastest QWERTY typist.