I didn't really learn to properly type until 10th grade. Every day for a semester we'd come to the tech lab and sit in silence for 40 minutes with cardboard shields over our hands, copying exercises ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.

If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...

As computers take over more and more of our lives, it behooves almost every one of us to be able to touch-type. It’s not essential to our existence, but it sure does make some tasks MUCH easier. Most ...

Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard's layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and ...