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OhGizmo!: Private: Fast Finger Keyboards For You Hunt & Peck Types

  • TheBob · 10 months ago
    Eh, reduce the amount of time it takes? Maybe. Make them fast? No. Also, the speed they move when they're at any computer besides their own will now significantly decrease, as they're even less used to a QWERTY.

    Not that I can say much. I never learned the "correct" way to type. But I also remain pretty fast, if error-prone.
  • mcman · 10 months ago
    I wonder who decided the original key arrangement in the first place? Now I'm going to have to find out or it will drive me insane. Hmmm, typewriters have been around for over 250 yrs, I think, sooo.....
  • andrew liszewski · 10 months ago
    As I understand it (though I could be wrong) the original QWERTY layout was designed specifically for typewriters, as it kept the most used characters spaced out on the keyboard to help reduce jams inside the typewriter. Or at least that's what DVORAK supporters use to claim the superiority of their layout, since QWERTY was apparently designed to slow typists down.
  • mcman · 10 months ago
    Here it is:

    "In 1875, Christopher Sholes with assistance from Amos Densmore rearranged the typewriter keyboard so that the commonest letters were not so close together and the type bars would come from opposite directions. Thus they would not clash together and jam the machine. The new arrangement was the "QWERTY" arrangement that typists use today."
  • hgregory · 10 months ago
    It is qwertyuiop because you can type the word

    TYPEWRITER

    by using the first row only! :)