Keyboard layout France, Belgium, and some African countries. It differs from the QWERTY layout thus: Lithuanian keyboards use a layout known as ĄŽERTY, where Ą appears in place of Q above A, Ž in place of W above S, and Ū in place of X below S, with Q, W, and X being available either on the far right-hand side or by use of the AltGr key. Besides ĄŽERTY, the Lithuanian QWERTY keyboard is also used. The QZERTY layout was used mostly in Italy, where it was the traditional typewriter layout. In recent years, however, a modified QWERTY layout with stressed keys
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard increase, since thinking speed is a much larger factor than writing speed. This would contrast with a verbatim transcription, which would rely much more heavily on keyboard layout for efficiency. Although the Dvorak design is the only other keyboard design registered with ANSI and is provided with all major operating systems, attempts to convert universally to the Dvorak design have not succeeded. The failure of the Dvorak pattern to displace the QWERTY pattern has been the subject of some studies. A discussion of the Dvorak pattern is sometimes used as an exercise by management consultants to illustrate the difficulties of