On 20 June 2012 12:09, Denny Esterline <desterline@gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't any objective measurements to help this conversation, but it ma=
y
> be useful to remember that the QWERTY layout was designed to
> _intentionally_ slow down the typists in the days of mechanical
> typewriters, where if they typed too fast the hammers would jam...
>

Actually I always thought that they did not want to slow down typewriters,
but with the qwerty layout it was less frequent that two neighbour hammers
were typed at the same time -- and that's what caused the 'jam' which
slowed down typewriters, so actually qwerty speed them up. Maybe I am wrong
though.

Tamas



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