Fact · Typing and writing speed
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The U.S. Navy selected fourteen typists for a 1944 study of whether retraining them to the Dvorak layout was feasible.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“the U.S. Navy selected fourteen typists for a 1944 study to assess whether Dvorak retraining would be feasible.”
The Dvorak Keyboard, J. C. Bowen, MIT personal web page, n.d., Navy study, 1944.
Open the original- What it measures
- Typists were scarce during the Second World War, which the page gives as the reason for the study.
- What it does not show
- Written as a personal summary of the Dvorak claims. The study's full data were never published.