Started by Chidi Eze (@pixelpushr) ·
QWERTY wasn't designed to slow typists down
5 sources · 31 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “why is the keyboard qwerty”
- Ended at
- Colemak
The Trail
- “why is the keyboard qwerty” (google.com)
- QWERTY (en.wikipedia.org)
- Christopher Latham Sholes (en.wikipedia.org)
- Dvorak keyboard layout (en.wikipedia.org)
- Colemak (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
The 'slow typists down' story is mostly myth. QWERTY evolved over years of typewriter revisions, partly to stop common letter pairs from jamming adjacent typebars, and possibly to suit telegraph operators.
Keep going
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