Why exactly do we still use qwerty style keyboards? We don’t use typewriters anymore.

Question

I honestly don’t get why the heck we use this stupid layout… please somebody help me understand.

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Answer 1

While a very well practiced typist can type faster on some other layouts, the gain is honestly not huge and would have a significant period of retraining. And very few people actually type enough to have any meaningful benefit, let alone enough to outweigh the effort and loss in productivity in switching.