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markconigliaro posted...

Purely posted...

As someone who has known how to type for many years and can now type 100 words per minute if I want to, it seems like this perfect layout.

The funny thing is the qwerty layout was designed to slow people down. It was made at a time of mechanical typewriters, and using them too fast would jam them. So commenly used letter combinations are placed far away from each other so that people can't type fast and jam their typewriters.

But humans have adapted to this format and now people can type faster than they can talk.

I've heard that and I don't think it's true. Just another one of those things people on the internet made up and people believed it. Like how Chinese to-go containers are meant to be folded out to make a plate, or that "no more tears" shampoo is talking about tearing the hair, not that it doesn't hurt in your eyes.