Fact · Typing and writing speed
A summary of the Dvorak evidence says later investigation showed the Navy experiments were at best biased and at worst fabricated.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“subsequent investigation has shown that at best, the experiments in the Navy study were biased, and at worst, fabricated.”
The Dvorak Keyboard, J. C. Bowen, MIT personal web page, n.d., Navy study.
Open the original- What it measures
- The Navy study of the 1940s is the source of the famous claim that Dvorak is much faster.
- What it does not show
- Personal page; the critique is developed in Liebowitz and Margolis (1990).