Dvorak Keyboard Design

Students of MLISc second semester of the University of Mysore 2013 batch did a small experiment to test the alphabet frequency in a given text.  Four students took one page each from a randomly selected text book and counted the alphabet frequency.  The results are shown below.  This experiment was done in connection with the alphabet arrangement in the home row of the Dvorak Keyboard design. The result showed that the alphabets on the home row and the top ranked alphabets in the experiment done by the students match to a very great extent; and thus testifying that the most frequently used alphabets are place on the home row of the Dvorak Keyboard.

Alphabet	Student 1	Student 2	Student 3	Student 4	Total	Percent
e	151	116	180	200	647	12.01
t	119	94	165	139	517	9.60
a	131	78	135	129	473	8.78
o	112	90	110	111	423	7.86
i	150	70	78	124	422	7.84
r	100	74	81	98	353	6.56
s	106	64	78	91	339	6.30
n	110	52	77	82	321	5.96
l	63	63	38	78	242	4.49
h	50	28	77	69	224	4.16
d	66	44	60	39	209	3.88
c	65	46	46	48	205	3.81
f	48	28	31	56	163	3.03
m	28	18	48	51	145	2.69
u	20	28	35	55	138	2.56
p	29	28	31	38	126	2.34
g	38	12	26	19	95	1.76
b	34	18	17	18	87	1.62
w	10	14	33	27	84	1.56
y	11	10	20	19	60	1.11
v	15	9	16	12	52	0.97
k	0	4	4	11	19	0.35
q	0	0	4	11	15	0.28
j	0	12	0	0	12	0.22
x	2	5	3	2	12	0.22
z	0	1	1	0	2	0.04
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