The tester with Dvorak Simplified keycaps: vowels on the left home row, common consonants on the right.
Dvorak·ANSI
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| Position | US QWERTY | Dvorak |
|---|---|---|
| - key | -_ | [{ |
| = key | =+ | ]} |
| Q key | Q | '" |
| W key | W | ,< |
| E key | E | .> |
| R key | R | P |
| T key | T | Y |
| Y key | Y | F |
| U key | U | G |
| I key | I | C |
| O key | O | R |
| P key | P | L |
| [ key | [{ | /? |
| ] key | ]} | =+ |
| S key | S | O |
| D key | D | E |
| F key | F | U |
| G key | G | I |
| H key | H | D |
| J key | J | H |
| K key | K | T |
| L key | L | N |
| ; key | ;: | S |
| ' key | '" | -_ |
| Z key | Z | ;: |
| X key | X | Q |
| C key | C | J |
| V key | V | K |
| B key | B | X |
| N key | N | B |
| , key | ,< | W |
| . key | .> | V |
| / key | /? | Z |
Dvorak was designed in the 1930s to put the most frequently typed letters on the home row: A O E U under the left hand and H T N S under the right. Punctuation moves to the top-left where Q, W and E used to be, and the letters P, Y, F, G, C, R, L take the rest of the top row. It uses a standard ANSI board — nothing physical changes, only the printed legends, which is exactly what this page shows.
The tester detects physical keys, so it works whether your operating system is currently set to Dvorak or QWERTY. Press the key that shows A on this page and it lights up the same switch that shows A on a QWERTY board; press the one labelled O and you are testing the switch QWERTY calls S. That makes this page useful for checking a keyboard with blank or Dvorak-printed keycaps without having to translate positions in your head.
No. Dvorak is a software layout available in every major operating system; most people simply enable it and keep their QWERTY keycaps. Custom Dvorak-printed caps exist for mechanical keyboards, and this tester is a quick way to verify that a rebuilt board with such caps has every switch working.