I honestly don’t get why the heck we use this stupid layout… please somebody help me understand.
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As others have said, it would be a pain to change. But another thing to understand is that the other options aren’t meaningfully better. Yes, there are “more efficient” or “more sensible” layouts, but when it comes down to it they’re not demonstrably easier to learn nor faster.
I resisted learning to touch type on a QWERTY keyboard initially… “It doesn’t make sense! There are better alternatives!” but eventually I needed to touch type for a job and so I forced myself to learn. Once I got past about 30 WPM (maybe after a couple months?) I never looked back. It’s been 20 years and I can do about 70 WPM now, and honestly it’s my brain that’s the limiting factor.
As a programmer, I learned to optimize programs by looking for bottlenecks. QWERTY is not the bottleneck in computer input.
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