A keyboard arrangement known as the Dvorak keyboard bears the name of its creator, Dr. August Dvorak. With the intention of enhancing working comfort, he created the keyboard as an option to the traditional QWERTY keyboard arrangement.

Dvorak researched typical working habits before creating the new keyboard arrangement. He came to the conclusion that the QWERTY keyboard arrangement, created for telegraph operators and early typewriters, was ineffective. It needed ungainly movements, insufficient use of the home row (ASDF), and one-handed typing for numerous typical key sequences.

Dvorak created a computer arrangement that alternated between the left and right wrists for better working speed. Additionally, he arranged the most popular characters in the first row. For instance, the Dvorak keyboard's home row starts with the characters AOEUI because almost all sentences contain consonants. Given that vowels and consonants frequently change, the vowel buttons are positioned close to one another.

In 1936, Dvorak sought to trademark his keyboard design, arguing that it was more efficient than the QWERTY keyboard in terms of typing speed, precision, and exhaustion. Despite these advantages, the QWERTY keyboard configuration continues to be more widely used than the Dvorak keyboard. The majority of people still learn to write using a QWERTY keypad and do not want to redo their keyboard learning process. As a result, almost all desktop and mobile computers marketed in Western nations have QWERTY keypad.

The Dvorak Simple Keyboard is another name for the classic Dvorak keypad (DSK). The American Simple Keyboard, a minor modification of the Dvorak keyboard arrangement, was defined by ANSI in 1982. (ASK).