For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.
Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.
For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.
Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.
I type much faster now that I use Dvorak, but I also forced myself to learn to touch type at the same time. Was it Dvorak that made me faster? Maybe! 😛