Reason Magazine - Typing Errors

This article goes on at length about the myth of of the QWERTY typewriter being slow and the Dvorak one being so much more efficient. I’ve told the story before but now I see that I am partly wrong.

The story is that the original mechanical typewriters had to have their keys arranged to make people’s typing slower so the mechanical arms that hit the paper wouldn’t jam. And the myth is that we have been stuck with a slow QWERTY keyboard key arrangement in the computer age when there are no mechanical limitations to typing speed. So the Dvorak keyboard has the keys arranged to speed up typing by putting the most commonly used letters in the home key positions under our strongest fingers.

You can also see this article for more on the myth.

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