Comments on: Fast Finger Keyboards For You Hunt & Peck Types

By: hgregory

hgregory — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:40:22 +0000

It is qwertyuiop because you can type the word

TYPEWRITER

by using the first row only!

By: mcman

mcman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:11:18 +0000

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.”

By: mcman

mcman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:11:18 +0000

Here it is:

By: andrew liszewski

andrew liszewski — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:33:13 +0000

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.

By: mcman

mcman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:50:09 +0000

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…..

By: mcman

mcman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:50:09 +0000

By: TheBob

TheBob — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:03:36 +0000

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.