I honestly don’t get why the heck we use this stupid layout… please somebody help me understand.
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The thing about Qwerty is it’s not a bad layout.
The idea that it was designed to slow typing down is a myth, really it was designed to give a good mix of left and right hand use, which keeps typewriter letter hits further away from each other and reduces jams but is also *good* for typing speed.
If you look at speed typing in other newer keyboard layouts the records are only a little faster than Qwerty.
So in Qwerty we have a layout that, sure, is old. But is fairly good for typing speed, is something everyone already knows, and especially for computer usage now has a load of important shortcut keys designed around their position such as Ctrl-Z/X/C/V all being next to each other that might be all over the place on a different layout.
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